It’s been raining all week.  Not just sprinkling, but really coming down.  We’ve been under flood watches, severe thunderstorm warnings, heavy fog warnings, frogs falling from heaven watches, etc.  And yet, everywhere I drive, I continue to pass by sprinklers that are futilely blasting water onto already-soaked lawns.  Now these things are obviously on timers, but come on people.  I mean really, come the fuck on.  We’ve put men on the moon.  We can send missiles down air conditioning chutes.  We can read license plate numbers from space.  Surely there is an inexpensive solution to prevent sprinklers from needlessly spilling a precious resource when it’s not needed!

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Comments

Julie

2004-11-23T23:36:13.000Z

There is such an invention. It’s called a rain sensor and you can have it installed on your sprinkler system so that it won’t come on when it rains.  My old A/R cheap boss had it installed, so it couldn’t have been too horribly expensive.  Although she was obsessed with how much we spent on water, so that was part of it.  I don’t know why people won’t put them on their systems.  Oh, yeah, I know, because they’re ASSHOLES!