So, I was standing on a ladder in the basement late this afternoon, draining the water line to the sprinkler system from a valve high inside the basement wall. The lawn care guy was outside with a high pressure air line connected to the sprinkle system waiting for my signal to blow down the line.

Suddenly there was a surge of high pressure water spraying into my face and down the wall of the basement. I started screaming “Stop! Stop the water!!”. Fumbling for the valve in the deluge of water I realized that the flow would only stop if I could screw the small brass cap back onto the valve. As I fumbled in the spray, the water flow tapered off giving way to air and finally stopped.

Drenched, I walked outside to find that the fellow felt bad, but was also laughing pretty hard. I started laughing too and we agreed that it was kinda funny. We got the job finished and went about our business.