Connor had been watering his plants with the garden hose when Sumo waddles out into the backyard. He sits lazily near Connor's feet as he watches the android tend to his garden. Connor didn't think much about his new companionship even as he finishes watering his plants. He looks at the results of his efforts and smiles in his satisfaction.
The hose is still on, aimed at the grass by his left shoe, and Connor pays little attention as Sumo directs himself right under the stream. Connor yelps when he realizes he's pouring cold water straight onto Sumo's coat and pulls the hose away. His intent was to get the water away from Hank's prized dog but Sumo trots back right underneath the jet of water.
"Sumo?" Connor finally understands that the big fluffy dog just might want to get wet. That's why he was sitting under the water, panting happily, looking like the purest picture of bliss.
Connor laughs even as he hears footsteps behind him.
"What are you doing to my dog?"
Connor, in a blind panic, turns abruptly with the hose in his hand in the air. It aims straight at the man behind him, Hank, who had recently just entered the backyard to see what was going on. Now Hank's tacky looking button-up shirt was drenched and clinging to his skin. The man looks at himself in shock and then he lifts his head to look back at Connor.
Connor smiles nervously.
"Um, nothing?"
Hank growls, "Give me that!" He snatches the hose from Connor's hands and grumbles. He adjusts it in his hands until he has it right where he wants it. The water now goes straight into the grass until Sumo picks himself up to sit under it once more. Hank adjusts the hose once more and Sumo follows right after the water.
"What the-?" Hank moves it again except this time he makes a mistake and aims it right at Connor. Connor looks down at his clothes and finds them equally as drenched as Hank's.
The two look at each other in their current predicaments.
Connor cracks a smile and he laughs.
He laughs so hard that he can't stop to himself. He's barreling over in his laughter, clutching his stomach with both of his hands, and he laughs. Then he hears Hank's laughter join in his own and soon enough Connor had water pouring down the back of his shirt.
Hank had stuck the hose in the collar of Connor's shirt.
Connor has the most mischievous of grins as he grabs the hose and sprays it into Hank's face.
The man sputters and then it becomes a war.
And Sumo sits there panting happily.
It was just another normal day for the Anderson family.