Why, oh why, do I keep DOing this stuff??!! 

Talkin' 'bout goofing up pool maintenance. Started filling the pool up a while ago, due to an apparent leak, I thought, from the filter, but naooo....! Remember when you learned about what a siphon was, as a kid, how it worked?! Well my leak problems are quite hilariously self-inflicted it turns out, since I've siphoned away a third of my pool water, by leaving the FILL hose IN!! My Dad showed me how a siphon worked, years ago, and of course we all know about the water-level-thing, but I guess I didn't understand the physics well enough, because I thought if I left that hose IN, although not connected to the spigot, that there would be no siphoning action, but WRONG (sound "WRONG" buzzer)! I guess a factor was that when I detached the hose from the spigot, it must have had sufficient water in it still so the flow reversed, and I've been emptying the thing for a couple of days now. Why does such comical stuff happen to me? As in "Why me, Lord??!!" [Cue thunderous voice from somewhere snarling, "Because sumpin' 'bout you just &()*&s me off!!!"] Admittedly old joke, but it always gives me at least a chuckle. Ok, fillin' the pool back up now, wonder how long THIS is gonna take??