Raison D'etre

This was on the side of my house when I moved in close to seven years ago. It came with the place. A hose holder not holding. All by its lonesome. It seems strange that it was put there because there is no tap close by. In fact, there was no tap at all outside before I moved in. So the reason for its existence is a mystery. I tried hanging lawn chairs from it but that seemed inappropriate somehow, like I was making fun of it, so I took them off. It seems happy enough hanging there. And now, it's gotten to be that if I took it down the house wouldn't be the same without it. Things like that sort of creep up on you. For years they're not an issue but just a fleeting curiosity and then one day you can't do anything about it. It's too late. It must stay.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about it, but it's like one of those things that you know you should be able to figure it out but for some reason you can't quite put your finger on it. Perhaps a fatalist would say it was put there all those years ago just to supply me with a visual today, that it was meant to be; but I don't think so. Maybe it was just the fashion when these first appeared on the market the neighbor got one so the owner went out and got one too, just to appear like they were with it. They probably hung a hose on it even though they didn't have a tap and watered their flowers with imaginary water. Like it was a completely natural thing to do. Yes, that must be it.

Hello police? I wish to report a brain-napping.

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Raison d'être (French pronunciation: [ʁɛzɔ̃ d‿ɛːtʁ]) is a French phrase meaning "reason for existence."