Way to make us all feel old, poster....

[conuly]

"The book is chill and low stakes. It takes place in the old times, way before the 2000s."

Sigh.

Unrelatedly, this one dude keeps on talking and referring to it as the Broad Street Well and if he does it again I'm blocking him. He clearly thinks he understands this subject better than I do, and he's wrong, but if he couldn't pick up on my oh-so-subtle bold-and-italics hint of the word PUMP, I just can't with him.

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Comments

[alexseanchai]

how does one hear word one about that without hearing that what's his face broke the handle off the pump

like, true or false, that is not a story that makes one bit of sense if the problem is a well actually

[crystalpyramid]

Is a pump a device for getting water out of a well, or do you not call it a well any more in that context? My urban life has not educated me as well about this as you might think.

[conuly]

If all sources refer to it as a pump, and this guy keeps stubbornly calling it a well, it irks.

[crystalpyramid]

Fair enough, yeah.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

That Pump wasn't even pulling from a well, was it?

Here, it is true that pump stations (which don't have spigots. Some breweries used to have water spigots) often are on wells, ones more like oil wells than the wishing well image.

Let Bobbi show him the door.

[archersangel]

i don't blame the MTA workers for wanting to have a break area, but using MTA resources (i presume that means money) is something else.

[maju]

"Way before the 2000s" is the old times? This person must be extremely young.