[He gives a brief, breathy laugh.]

I've been having trouble with a lot of fuckin shit lately. But someone needs to do this, right? Everyone's whining about us not having any water but I don't see any of you guys stepping up to try to, I don't know, stop the damn sprinklers.

[Does he need to be this defensive? The jury's still out on that. Maybe he's just sore about getting interrupted with a perfectly reasonable, polite offer of help from someone who could probably get this done about ten times better than he could.]