So, when I was in college, I lived in this house — a dorm on campus that had a big common space with a janitor’s closet on the first level. One year, someone realized that the janitor’s closet had been left unlocked, and the door was ajar. There was a hose that ran, like, scalding hot water. So, they got this kiddie pool and filled it with hot water and we had, like, 7 dudes in it on the patio in front of the dorm, like it was a hot tub, and it turned into a bit of a tradition.
We could fit almost… we could get between 5 and 10 people in there, and we’d have the hose coming in on one side, and then someone standing right next to the stairs, and their job was to lean against the side and let the water out every few minutes, so that it would stay at the same level and so we would constantly have warm water, like, warming it up. It became a thing, like, 2 or 3 times a year, we’d whip it out in the fall.
My senior year, the campus finally caught on, and they were doing everything they could to prevent us from doing that — really, they were just closing the door. This is when I figured out that there was an air vent on the side of the wall of the janitor’s closet — it was just a vent with no duct or anything behind it, just a hole in the wall of the closet — but I figured out how to crawl through the vent and open the closet from the inside, and, so, we kept running the hot tub for at least one more year.
There was one night that we ran out of hot water in this 3 or 4 story building that we were in, it was a house with, like, over 30 people, and we ran out of hot water. We went in the kitchen and found the biggest stock pot we could find, and we took turns heating up water and pouring it in, and so, like, the next day, a couple of us have some light red burns, and we’re like, ”Oh, yeah, that’s where we touched the really hot pot” as we braced it while we were trying to pour it in without letting it, like, melt the plastic on the side of the hot tub.
This was a fun, silly thing that we did for awhile. At no point did anyone get hurt, or fall asleep in the hot tub or anything, either. It was just a bunch of guys being dudes.
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