Is it cheating to use a hose in a water balloon fight?

[fairfarmhand]

Dh and the kids were outside doing this tonight.

 

What says the hive?

[ChocolateReignRemix]

I wasn't aware of water balloon fights having many rules.

[maize]

Depends, is access to the hose up for grabs?

 

Based on water fights I have been in, anything goes. Well, maybe not the fire hydrant ;)

[clementine]

Was it Dad that grabbed the hose? Sounds like something my dh would do. :)

[Guest]

It's not cheating, per se. But it's a tool only appropriate to the ruling elite, who have decades of experience under their benevolent belts.

 

IOW *I* am the only one allowed to use it :closedeyes:

[lmrich]

What about using the sink sprayer through the kitchen window? Or dropping a bucket of water from a second floor bedroom? 

 

- I think all is fair in water fight wars!

[Guest]

My son's birthday parties were always water balloon/hose/bucket fights. My job was to go inside and lick the doors.

[fairfarmhand]

My son's birthday parties were always water balloon/hose/bucket fights. My job was to go inside and lick the doors.

 

Lick?

 

hehe!

[ChocolateReignRemix]

My son's birthday parties were always water balloon/hose/bucket fights. My job was to go inside and lick the doors.

 

Quoted because the typo made me giggle. :laugh:

[Melissa in Australia]

Yes cheating and not allowed. We have tank water that collects rain. It is a serious crime at this house to waste water. You never know when it will rain again especially in the warmer months.we could easily go for 2 months with no rain

[Guest]

Quoted because the typo made me giggle. :laugh:

What makes you think it was a typo???

[gardenmom5]

depends why the hose is being used.

 

is someone just unwiling to be equal by also tossing water balloons?  or did those with the water balloons deliberately hit someone who hadn't been playing?

 

here - if you attack someone who wasn't part of the water fight - they can then use the hose to take vengeance. (and no running in the house to get away from  the hose).  if someone wants to participate - but doesn't want to use a squirt gun or  balloons . . . that's a poor sport and I'd consider it cheating.

[Seasider]

Not if you're the one paying the water bill.

[Night Elf]

I think a hose has no place in a water balloon fight. You spend time filling up the balloons. That's prep work. There is no prep work with a hose. It's too easy and too powerful.

[SKL]

Rules are agreed upon up-front.  Hose or no hose, as long as it's agreed.  :)

[Critterfixer]

Not if I use the hose. Everybody else has to fight with conventional weapons, but I am the regional superpower. :hat:

[KarenC]

Yes and I certainly hope no one was wearing formal attire!   :laugh:

[Carol in Cal.]

Hoses not allowed.  Super soakers are subject to negotiation.  Regular water pistols and water balloons are the norm.  Selah.

[kirstenhill]

Rules are agreed upon up-front. Hose or no hose, as long as it's agreed. :)

This! Water balloons, water guns, spray bottles, buckets, maybe the hose....but everyone should agree up front so no feelings are hurt later.

[Lady Florida.]

For a water balloon fight? Yes.

 

A water gun fight? Perfectly acceptable.

[MrsBasil]

No.  Not really.  I mean, I'll sure claim it is if someone else gets to the hose first...but no.   Unless it's stated beforehand that there will be no hose use, I suppose.

 

Cheating is running inside every time the other team/person has an advantage.

 

[AmyontheFarm]

If I send the kids out to ambush their father, then the hose is an acceptable defense for Dad to use.  I tend to LOCK the doors and stand there in the window LICKING ice cream.  Usually, they end up spraying all the windows for me to let them in.  Bonus, I get clean windows.

[FaithManor]

I have no opinion except to say I hate water fights because my older brother was a brutal maniac so as a matter of survival, if you throw water at me, you better hope I do not get a hold of the power washer and aim it your way.

 

:)

[Daria]

In our house growing up the rule was that if someone went inside you couldn't aim the hose through the open window, especially if they were sitting on the living room couch.

 

That is the only water fight rule I know.