Miscellaneous: Today, I had to water my entire garden. After an exhausting hour...

By Rainman - 14/06/2009 20:39 - United States

Today, I had to water my entire garden. After an exhausting hour of watering hundreds of plants, I turned off the hose and started to feel good about the grueling job. That is, until it started pouring rain. FML

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By elle - 23/05/2011 10:17

Today, I found out that the peaceful rain I'd been listening to all night was really a broken water-main flooding my entire yard. FML

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By Furry - 02/12/2009 18:25 - United Kingdom

Today, I looked outside with a grimace at the very heavy rainfall through which I had to trudge a long way. I waited ten minutes for it to let up, only to find it was getting heavier. So, I started walking anyway. After getting soaked to the bone, I walked through my door, and it stopped. FML

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By Pauline - 26/10/2024 03:00 - Canada

Today, three weeks after I finally tried my hand at gardening by planting a bunch of herbs and was so proud of my work, I found out that I had actually been watering weeds this whole time. My herbs were actually the things I was trying to eliminate. FML

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By Nelson - 09/05/2011 15:05 - Sweden

Today, I was sitting on my balcony reading a book. My upstairs neighbors thought that would be a good time to water their flowers. I'm now drenched in water, as is my book. FML

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By stew - This FML is from back in 2009 but it's good stuff - United States

Today, it took me more than four hours to set up the back yard for my daughter's baby shower. It only took my husband one push of a button to turn on the sprinklers. FML

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By gazza - 26/05/2012 20:41 - United Kingdom - Guildford

Today, in the middle of a localised drought, and an accompanying hosepipe ban, my mother has decided that she still needs to water her lawn. To balance out the water usage, she's placed a complete ban on the use of our shower until the weather lets up. FML

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By Anonymous - 18/07/2009 14:23 - United States

Today, I finished a fence around my house that I have been working on all week. About an hour after I finished, a water company truck pulled into my driveway. They told me they would have to take down my fence to make repairs on a water pipe. FML

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By Deconstructed - 19/05/2009 20:13 - United States

Today, my husband let me sleep in while he worked on the landscaping by our backyard pool. Ready for a shower, I stripped naked, opened the back door to let the dog out, and stepped out to ask him how it was going. Turns out he'd finally hired a landscaping crew. FML

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By Anonymous - 09/05/2009 15:50 - United States

Today, I had to mow the lawn with a weedwacker because it rained a lot the past week and the push mower was broken. I started "mowing", and forgetting that I am mowing where the dogs go to the restroom, I absent-mindedly weedwack over dog poop. Which got flung into my face. FML

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By legotron - 17/10/2009 05:18 - United States

Today, I left work at 11pm. It was cold and dark, and I was anxious to get home, so I cut across some soccer fields to get to my car. About halfway across, the sprinklers came on. FML

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ZeldasSage 0

Monday 15 June 2009 0:58

Aww that sucks! Should've checked the weather forecast, though. =/

paperfox_fml 0

Monday 15 June 2009 1:08

Yeah, it's such ******* hard work holding a hose for 10 minutes.

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HunnyBunch 0

Monday 15 June 2009 18:27

Damn that sucks. But yeah, you got some exercise :D

googly_moogly 0

Monday 15 June 2009 18:37

YDI, usually you can tell when it's about to rain, cause the clouds are darker.

black_heartz 0

Monday 15 June 2009 18:39

check the weather.. buy a sprinkler for your garden... that could've easily been avoided.

Mattysal 0

Monday 15 June 2009 20:01

Weather aside, it was an 'exhausting hour' of watering plants? Did you use a fire hose? I've never known 1 hour of walking around with a hose to be exhausting. Exercise more, perhaps?

mordantennui 0

Monday 15 June 2009 21:28

Been there done that

macblack 0

Monday 15 June 2009 22:21

Just look at it this way: double the amount of water AND u gotta workout doing it :)

Silver_Eyes 0

Monday 15 June 2009 22:33

Aw... that sucks.

cffarmer 0

Monday 15 June 2009 22:35

I feel your pain. I work at a nursery, and this happens a lot. We check the weather... but the worst is when we KNOW it's going to rain, but we have to fertilize, so the plants get twice the water.