TODAY I BOUGHT AND INSTALLED a new 150 ft. garden hose. The shiny new green bundle looked like a cinch to install and use right away. NOT. The easy part was attaching the hose to the spikot. But the next hour felt more like an upper body workout than a nice smooth project. You should have seen it. I confidently started to unravel the series of kinks quickly. I had a rhythm going. Yeah! But about half way through I noticed that I was de-kinking in the wrong direction. With all the hose I needed pulled out from the neatly stacked roll, I started from the roll and had to counter twist. Thus creating a big-BIG mess. An hour later, I had finally gotten all the kinks out and had what looked like a straight hose. I ran water through it and all was well. But what a job....
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