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I can't see a water fountain without a mental 1 steamboat, 2 steamboats, 3 steamboats...
Though I always appreciated the ones who counted hippopotamuses instead.
Was that how long you could take to drink if there was a line?
Yes.
Man, I haven't thought of that in almost 40 years!
Ours was always “1 2 3 save some for me”
Hey! No cuts.
That was the weirdest thing for me when I worked at a little kid's school. When I was a kid, we didn't have designated drinking time at the fountain. We just drank randomly during recess and lunch.
I used to do "one one-thousand, two one-thousand, etc"
But then found it was better to so l switch it to "one-thousand one, one-thousand two, etc" because then the count matches the time closer. In the first, when you say the count, you are actually one second earlier. Eg, "two" marks the end of the first second and the start of the second one. But saying the number after (one-thousand, steamboat, mississippi, or whatever) means you can just say the number you last said for an accurate second count.