Head to Toe

My family went on vacation one year up to a place called Alisal Ranch near Solvang, I must have been about 12 at the time. I was excited; my parents took us on some cool trips growing up. So, right after we got there I was chomping at the bit to go exploring with my older sister who was about 15, once we got settled my mom told us to be careful, not to get into any trouble and be back in an hour. It was a great place full of big trees, Blue Jays flying from oak to oak and a nice little creek running through the ranch, we wandered over to this footbridge that crossed the shallow creek and while my sister was looking for frogs or tadpoles down by the bank, I noticed this metal pipe coming out of the dirt running along the path by the bridge it was about a foot off the ground and pretty long maybe 20 feet. It looked like it would be fun to jump on, which I did shouting at my sister how much fun it was and to come join me bouncing on this pipe, which somewhere in the back of my mind I knew fell into the "don’t get into trouble" category of my mother’s request. About 5 seconds after I called to my sister, the pipe broke open at this 90 degree “L” joint and I was showered with water pretty much head to toe, mind you I was wearing jeans and a long sleeve shirt, it was later in the afternoon and I want to say it was Fall because there were leaves all over the ground and it wasnt that warm. I happen to be jumping on the exposed sprinkler line for the golf course. It scared the crap out of me cause I knew I was about to get in so much trouble for breaking the pipe I was sure they were going to make my parents pay for the repair, or ask us to leave, I was really upset. After my sister got done laughing at me and teasing me, telling me how much trouble I was going to be in, I almost couldn’t breath I thought I was going to spend the entire vacation in the hotel room, then my big sis looked over at me and said "we'll just tell mom you fell into the creek, you dork." At that moment I knew she'd always have my back and to this day my parents think I fell into that creek.