++ [ originally posted by gray
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I confess that I was defeated by a garden hose today
I was watering the plants down at the nursery, and that involves extending the hose about 30 metres, since I have to walk up and down the rows of pots. After I was finished, I tried to wind the hose back up, but if you've ever had to wind up a 30m hose before, you'll know that they don't remain straight all the way down the length of the hose; there's a bunch of bends and twists from the water passing through.
My hose doesn't have one of those handles where it just winds up onto a roll, I just have to roll it up and 'hang' it on a wire. I got about halfway through when I realised that it was getting extremely difficult to wind any further. My clothes and body were getting dirty all over from the mud that had stuck to the entire length of the hose, and the coils were getting all tangled up and stiff. I'm normally not much of a hot-head, but for some reason I got extremely frustrated, unwound the whole thing and stormed back upto my house for a cold shower
How pathetic am I :down: