First blunder at a client's house

Today I flooded the side yard of a client’s house. A new client at that.

I turned the water on last night to water the garden (as requested)… and I just totally forgot about it after being occupied with the dog and cat. Thing is… even when I sat down on the bed last night, I thought to myself “Did I turn the water off? … yeah I did.” Obviously not.
The hose was on from about 8pm to 1pm the next day. The entire side yard was flooded. I freaked. Freaked out. Called my dad, texted my best friend and just otherwise ran around like I didn’t have a head… trying to get this water up and redistributed so it would dry up. Dad said (it’s just water) to just find a push broom and push it around. Of course this house didn’t have a push broom… just a tiny normal broom (which did nothing). Ryan (friend) said that it was just water, and it probably wasn’t anything to freak about… but otherwise kept texting me thru out to see how I was doing. He still thought it wasn’t a big deal, but that I freaked out and cared so much about it meant that I was a good person.
But the thing was, it wasn’t “just water”. It was water that at one point, was past ankle deep. It was also probably the size of 20 feet “long” of just water. That wasn’t going to evaporate in 2 hours.
The dog loved it though 😐

A different client of mine (which I was due to have lunch with today… now moved to Monday… the client with the pitbull for those that have read some of my posts) came out to help me since she lives just down the way. It’s actually against the “rules” of my job to have people at the houses. Obviously understandable… but I know her well enough and just having her there calmed me a bit. She also helped with the water.

Eventually I just had to call my boss about it. I had been working for over an hour on this and it really wasn’t going anywhere. Not to mention I felt like vomiting because it was 105 degrees out, and I had pants, a tight-woven cotton shirt, a hat and a hooded JACKET on… all the while running around like mad.
My boss, Linda, said it didn’t sound like a big deal… but I still asked that she come over and look. She came over and said the same thing as everyone else did. It’s just water. It looked like they had a heavy rain. She said “The dog and cat are safe. You’re okay, the actual house is okay. That’s all that really matters!” She called the owners and apparently they also said it probably wasn’t a big deal.

I was so flustered that apparently, I left one of the garage doors half open. I KNOW I closed it… or at least hit the button. I suppose it just didn’t register… maybe I hit it too fast before the machine could react. So while the owners didn’t have a problem with the water, they did with the garage door. I really screwed up with this one -__-

I’m pretty sure I burned my feet as well. I wasn’t wearing socks or shoes (since they were soaked anyway) the whole time. 105 degree weather while walking on concrete. My feet are bright red, and are very painful to walk on.

As my dad said, you learn from your mistakes though. And while this is the first mistake I have EVER made at a client’s house, I’ve definitely learned from it. For sure, I’m never walking away from a hose again -___-

Amazingly, they want me to come back next week for another 6 days of pet sitting. I’m just… still very flustered about the whole thing. What a stupid mistake! How could I have let this happen? If it was my yard I wouldn’t have given it 2 minutes of my time. But this wasn’t my house. This was, essentially, a strangers house. It’s not my property to eff up.