Dont be deceived by appearances!

So I was sitting in our oh so spacious living room the other day when I heard a strange noise coming from the back yard. I looked out and saw one of our sprinklers spraying ferociously (if a sprinkler can be described as such) towards our deck and hitting some cardboard boxes from our move that we had put out there. I thought to myself- I don’t think that it supposed to happen. So I decided that I knew how to fix the problem (I am still wondering where that confidence came from.) I went outside and assessed the situation. I had to bend down and slide under the bush in order to see what was happening. And there it was. A tiny black tube coming out of the ground and wrapped underneath one of the branches of the bush. From this itty bitty tube I do believe ALL the water from Mesa was shooting out at 500 mph! Not putting 2 and 2 together I thought “well, thats silly, why is that tube wrapped under the branch?” So, being super smart, and thinking that I was solving the problem I slid the tube from out from under the branch. Note to all of you- If a tube in wrapped under a branch, there is probably a reason! That illy bitty tube came ALIVE and starting whipping around spraying everything in its path- including me! Now because I had to strategically place myself where I was, there was really no running away. After screaming like a school girl (which I am okay with) I finally got control of it and got my whits about me. I tried to wrap it around another branch so it would shoot at something else that it would actually benefit (unlike the cardboard boxes from earlier).After much time of being sprayed at each attempt that I made, and using muscles that I didn’t know that I had, I actually found a place that it would stay. Getting up and dusting myself off, feeling quite proud of myself and my win over the tube, I looked toward the sliding door that I had just come out of and horror filled my body. In my curiosity when I went out to see what the noise was from earlier, I hadn’t shut the door. And when I had finally found a place for the tube, I had in reality given the tube a direct shot into the door. Therefore there was this nice little rainbow of water shooting (ferociously, mind you) into my house!!! AHHH!!! I screamed and ran inside and shut the door. I guess when I woke up that morning, common sense stayed in my bed because why did I run to the door and shut the door from the inside instead of going to the tube(the source of the problem) and moving it? Now I was stuck inside watching the water hit the door from the outside and wondering what to do. The only way to fix it would be to open the door and let more water in and at the same time drenching myself. What a dilemma!
Luckily that was about the time that common sense came down the stairs and reminded me that there is a side gate! I went around and finally solved the problem. Whew! The next little while was spent using towels to soak up the piles of water all over the kitchen floor and table! This will be a great memory for some time!