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It was a Monday morning. I woke up to my radio from my old school alarm clock (after the iPhone debacle of 2011 I turned back to my trusty old school alarm clock to get me started in the morning). Janet Jackson’s “love will never do without you” gets my morning going and I head over to the boys room to get them up. I hear sniffles and sneezes coming from my little one and he is begging me to stay in bed and “call in a sick day”
“Sorry boo-boo we all have to go to school” I reply softly and kiss him on the forehead.

My oldest helps me get everyone breakfast while I get ready for work. Everything is going smoothly. That is until I walked outside.

It was 32 degrees; meteorologists say that is freezing temperatures and it froze…all night. There was frost and ice all over my car which is okay, not a problem. Yes, I know my dear Midwest, East Coast friends that this pails in comparison to the snow fall that you have experienced as of late…..but this is California and I am a California girl.

“Mommy, look at all the snow!” my youngest son says with such glee and a cheery disposition. He is happy because he is a California Boy and we don’t get stuff like that around our parts.

“yes son I know but it is not snow it is frost” I say as I start to head over to the car.

This my dear friends is where everything went from good to bad in 3.5 seconds…This is the story about a woman and the garden hose… It sounds a little suggestive but I assure you my friends, its far from it. Also my dear friends let me further add to this story by adding the visuals; I am in my knee high stiletto boots with a bright red winter dress coat because I am heading out for work at the office.

And start scene…. Queue in Benny Hill Theme Song

The little one frolics in the grass as I try to corral him to the car. I start up the car to warm it up and defrost the windows which is covered in frost and ice.

“This is not going to work” I thought

I make my way to the garden hose which has last been used in the summer time and wrapped up so tightly around this do-hicky thing-a-ma-bob that you use so that your garden hose is not snaked around the lawn – and it is frozen and stuck.

It is a bad time to be in stiletto boots – I thought

I yank.
I pull.
And the darn this is not budging.

I put my stiletto boot on the side of the house and yank and pull some more, all the meanwhile I can see my 5 year old patiently waiting for me to give him my next direction. I can see his little head with the camouflage fargo beanie turn right and left as he watches me yank and pull on the garden hose from that do-hicky thing-a-ma-bob.

I yank.
I pull.
Nothing

I try another position, and this time I grab the hose like I am some sort of tug-of-war match.

I yank.
I pull
and finally the hose gives way - but just a little bit.

I say to myself “That’s okay, we have a fire hose nozzle and I can shoot the water from where I am at”

I turn on the water, turn my trusty fire hose nozzle and out comes the gushes of ...... squirts. My son is still patiently waiting for me, but he is getting cold – after all it is 32 degrees outside and we have been out there for a good 5-10 minutes.

“Mommy, I am cold” he says softly as to not upset his already upset mother.
“Yes honey, let’s get in the car”

I drop the hose that is still squirting and get my son to the car which is getting warmed up. I strap him in the booster and now, now that I am away from the hose and by the car – the hose decides its going to go – and go it does, after all it is a a fire hose nozzle. I am getting wet in my fancy red dress coat and my stiletto boots. I run to the hose aim it at the car and just like that it started squirting again. I just stood there with my head cocked to the side and said

"really?!"

I texted my boss the following message.

5 mins late.
Battle with the garden hose to defrost car.
Garden hose won.

And end scene.

True Story.

Happy Tuesday my friends.


Nellie G.

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