Dang, I'm an idiot!!!

[Flying Beagle]

Please tell me I am not the only one that accidentally floods the pool at least once per season. I had just gotten all of the chemicals perfect and the pool was becoming trouble free when I went to add about an inch of water. Got distracted took the kids to softball practice, came home cooked and ate dinner watched a show and went to bed. Lying in the quiet bedroom asked my wife do you hear water running??? Uhhhggg its so frustrating...

 

[Texas Splash]

Note to self ..... always staple a 3M sticky reminder to my forehead when I turn on the water. Yes, I have done that more than once. Now I have Alexa help remind me.

 

[Newdude]

Protip: for any adding or removing water, set a cellphone timer. Ask me how I know.

Running a bath, sprinklers, draining or filling the pool............. yeah. Lalalalalalalala DOH!!!!!

 

[wireform]

This garden hose timer is the best insurance for that problem. We're all busy and think we won't forget .......

 

[jedigrover]

"Hey Siri/Alexa, set a timer for 1 hour". That's my solution to it.

 

[JoyfulNoise]

I once left a drip hose with a spray head on the end watering a crepe myrtle tree and some shrubs running for 26 hours before realizing it. The next day I'm pulling in to my garage after dropping the kids off at school and wondering why the base of that block wall is soaking wet .... the entire retained wall between my home and the basketball court was flooded with what I could only estimate as about 6000 gallons of water. The entire area was saturated and the full length of the retaining wall was soaked like a sponge with water percolating through it ... my dog was in all her joyous glory playing in the muddy puddles and fighting the misty spray from the spray head ...

That was an unplanned for $300 extra payment to Tucson water that I'm sure made the executives there very happy ... I know the crepe myrtle loved it, it bloomed for weeks even in the hottest days of the year ...

 

[Woodstock1234]

I always set a timer! Cause yea, I would be doing that too.

 

[Toxophilite]

Are you asking me? The one who went swimming yesterday afternoon after starting a pan of now well done chili meat??????

 

[cznkane]

I have a much better story about forgetting to turn the water off...it involves flushing the sewage tank on our travel trailer with the drain valve closed

 

[firefighter75]

I did that one time, but it was a water bed.... not pretty!