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What kind of hose nozzle are you?

 
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I'm a "shower," married to a "jet"...



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^ Whoa, that's awesome! Hahahaha! ^

This would make a great job interview test. Does this person have a robust sense of humour? A sense of the ridiculous but harmless? My kind of colleague.

EDIT: This would be a perfect test for a management position. The kind of person who would say "I can work with all these types" and more importantly "why choose, just regulate the water pressure with the little valve at the back" would be mindful enough to be a manager I could work for and respect.
 
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Nicole Alderman wrote:I'm a "shower," married to a "jet"...


I'm the guy who's fixing the O-ring instead of buying an even more disposable nozzle from Amazon.
 
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With 125 psi water pressure, the O rings blow out the first day.
Garden hoses are the same way, no matter what they say about heavy duty... they are mistaken!
The nozzles must be all brass and my garden hose is 200 psi air line.
I guess this means I am a high-pressure blowout!

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Either brass nozzle so I can shut it off, or thumb over the end of the hose.
I'm always an outlier on tests like this :D

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Nicole Alderman wrote:I'm a "shower," married to a "jet"...


Ha; same here! (At least if I'm thinking about how we use the actual nozzle.)

I'm also a thumb over the end of the hose so that I can make it any kind of shower I want.
 
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I'm a brass shut-off followed by a quick connect sort of gal.



I can be whatever I want!!! In this picture is my favourite style of nozzle (the fancy ones get gunked up too fast in our hard water, so even this style only gets used when necessary) under our home made bucket/bottle filler. The fillers are super useful on the farm, except they're known to harbour insects, particularly earwigs. I try to remember to tap them before using, unless I'm giving water to chickens who think earwigs are yummy.

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What I found unique about everyone's answer is that only one or two actually answer the questions of what kind of hose nozzle are you according to the meme.

Like Nicole I would say I am a shower...

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Anne Miller wrote:What I found unique about everyone's answer is that only one or two actually answer the questions of what kind of hose nozzle are you according to the meme.



Do you mean the kind of hose nozzle I think I am, or the kind of hose nozzle other people think I am?
 
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I'm a drip feed system. Usually tucked under mulch where each drop can have maximum actual effect even with no visible effect.

Unfortunately I have no filter, so I tend to clog up.

But then sometimes I pull the whole contraption off the end, stick my thumb over it and jet spray something that desperately needs it. And then back to drip feed, if the jet has managed to dislodge whatever was clogging the filter while it was working...

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I'm that old nozzle showing a few dings, a lot of tarnish, and regardless of the pattern setting I'm about 90% blocked ( or so the heart folks tell me) and on occasion I drip.

Growing old sure beats the hell out of the alternative!!

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I'm a shower usually, until the thing breaks, then I'm a thumb over the end for a year or two, before I see a fancy nozzle somewhere and want to try again.

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I'm somewhere between a Shower and a Jet because sometimes I just want to water plants at a distance by shooting a arc up into the air to rain down at a distance.

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I'm going to say I'm a "cone," a cross between jet and shower.

Gently watering at a distance, but with enough force up close to move things I want moved.
 
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I use shower, jet and cone- depending on what plants need watered. I also use mist on mushroom patches and logs.

I do a lot of watering this time of year, and I've been having LOTS of problems lately  with leaky watering wands.

I'm really wondering, is there such a thing as a high-quality watering wand that is leak proof and made to last? If so, please tell us about it, because I'm sick of the cheap plastic ones that always leak! (And the watering wand reviews I've seen on youtube and amazon are really misleading!)


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howdy,

I'm adjustable, and I leak and I also keep using rubber gaskets over and over and over....did I mention that I always seem to be leaking...

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randal cranor wrote:I'm adjustable, and I leak and I also keep using rubber gaskets over and over and over....did I mention that I always seem to be leaking...

Some famous person described humans as "leaky bags of dirty water" or close to that - leaking is good or bad depending on the precise circumstances, but not leaking at all usually is very bad news... "Controlled discharge is usually the goal!

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