Jason Moon

Someone had delivered roughly 2,700 gallons of water to his house.

There wasn't like a note?

There was nothing, no.

And I just assumed it had to be a mistake.

Ben remembered the delivery truck he saw.

He decided to try and catch up to it.

So I hopped back in the car and I drove around the block and I said, hey, I don't know if you made a mistake, but there's all this water in our driveway.

We didn't order any water.

And he kind of sheepishly said like, oh, you know, you don't know about this.

For a lot of people, the Pierces, me, maybe you, tap water is a given, like the sky being blue or pavement being solid.

Turning on the tap is a reflex, almost like breathing.

We do it when we shower, fill the coffee pot, boil pasta, when we brush our teeth.

After the surprise delivery, Ben made a few calls, and he discovered that the water he and his family had been using for months had something in it, something that made it unsafe to drink or to cook with, something you couldn't boil out.

So instead of turning on the tap, they started cracking open plastic bottles.

They explained to their two young kids, don't drink out of the faucet.

Don't even use it to rinse your toothbrush.

One of the things Ben worried most about was the teeth brushing, especially with his three-year-old, Kinsey.

You know, it was a lot for her to just even manage a tube of toothpaste and a toothbrush, you know.

So to then ask her to, you know, unscrew a cap and pour a little bit of water on her toothbrush and then, you know, I really didn't think they'd be able to do it as kids.

They still used the tap for showering, but tried hard not to get the water in their mouths.