Thursday, June 14, 2018
4/ Washing My Car (the whine is implicit)
I was psyched to wash my seriously dirty Caprice. (Nothing encases a car in dirt like a dirt road.) Needed a hose, so rather than bother my son (who has them all stashed away) I bought my own 25-footer at Walmart. Brought all my supplies outside, and then I hooked up the hose. Threaded connection felt good, nice and tight. Added a nozzle and turned on the water. Half of it shot straight up in the air from the point of connection. The other half shot out at an angle--hitting me--from a neat round hole in the brand new hose. Abandoned everything, changed my clothes, and drove to the car wash.
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I'm sorry - I had to laugh. I was wondering why you wouldn't go directly to the car wash! And then I had a momentary lapse, wondering why on earth you'd try to wash your car in the icy depths of the winters you have there. Until I realised, of course, that I'm in the icy depths of winter, not you. I never lose my senses of hemispherical orientation. I'm a bit shaken by it!
ReplyDeletePS. I hope you get your money back for your brand new hose with the hole in it.
DeleteTake that hose back!!! And great story.
ReplyDeleteI laughed too. Sorry. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, guys! The hose was so cheap—$6!—but I'm definitely taking it back. No apologies needed. I thought it was funny too.
ReplyDeleteI laughed too. You wrote it so well I could picture it.
ReplyDeleteMade me laugh as well! Nothing like slapstick involving water and a hose.
ReplyDeleteA friend suggested the washer may have fallen out of the threaded end of the hose, and sure enough--I found it on my firewood rack on the porch this morning. But that doesn't explain the hole in the middle of the hose.
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