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It's good to know that it's normal. However, it just seems strange to get drenched by the spigot every time I turn it off. Why did homes not need these in the past? Every home I've lived in, until now, never had a vacuum breaker on it. This includes the built-in one that Terry showed.

Should I just expect a mess when turning off the water then? When I was growing up, there was never a vacuum breaker, and we never had this kind of problem. Is it fine to just remove it?

I have a vacuum breaker on my spigot in the backyard. When you turn off the spigot it sprays water. Not dripping, not a little spurt, but high pressure spraying from the hose side of the vacuum breaker. Once the water is completely off, and the pressure has died off from the hose, it stops...