Gone are the days of the classical red fire hydrant. Instead, the water public works has assigned certain colours to certain parts of the fire hydrant. The main shaft, center nozzle, side nozzles, and cap can all have different colours. The different colours clue show the different waters systems to which a nozzle is connected with.
What are your street colours? We have colours of the nation, state, county, municipality, school district, and even a hydrant colour assignment. Do you have hydrant pride?
I did find one classical red fire hydrant, but it had a nose ring. I guess it would have been a great sin against humanity to have a naked red nozzle showing.
By far the most interesting nozzle was a plastic one found in Philadelphia's Airport. It was on AstroTurf so that service dogs could do their business. Rather than dispensing water, this hydrant's purpose was to receive water—water from a dog.
However, when little kids were walking by, they were naturally tempted to go play to my puppy pee pee spot!
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