Man orders watering can from Amazon and is baffled when he opens box

The internet has made getting hold of items you need in a pinch easier than ever before. If you desperately need a specific type of screwdriver but don't have a DIY shop near you, or if you need food for the day but you've been struck down with a cold and can't leave the house, ordering things direct to your door couldn't be simpler.

But ordering online comes with its own set of challenges. You can't inspect the items being sent to you, so you often have to rely on a couple of pictures to decide whether the product is what you need. This can sometimes leave you regretting your purchase if what you receive isn't what you expected.

That's exactly what happened to one man who went on Amazonto buy a watering can for his garden. He thought nothing of it when he placed the order for the green two-gallon plastic can, but was left baffled when it arrived.

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When he took it out of the packaging, he was amazed to find one glaring issue with his purchase - it had no hole in the top.

This meant the watering can was completely useless to him, as he had no way of filling it with water for his plants. The body was completely sealed, with only a hole in the spout for pouring the water from.

Sharing the bizarre purchase on Reddit, he wrote: "Bought this watering can off Amazon, nothing but the best built here in USA. Where's the hole? How does this make it past quality control?"

And to make matters even more confusing, the man wasn't the only one to have had issues with the same watering can.

Someone else had ordered one that had been delivered just one day before the poster shared his purchase on Reddit. Theirs did have a hole in the top, but also had a second hole in the bottom - making it just as useless.

They wrote: "I just got the same can delivered yesterday! Mine has the big hole though, and if you look down into it I got a nice bonus hole at the bottom!"

The original poster replied: "They gave you mine it appears!"

Other commenters on the post were quick to make jokes about the man's bizarre purchase, with some hilariously calling the tool a "watering can't" instead of a "watering can".

One person joked: "Spill-proof design. Nice." Another added: "Turn it into a piggy bank and 10 years from now make a dad joke about money growing on trees."

Someone even shared their own story of working in a factory where a new employee had caused several products to be shipped out without the necessary holes cut into them.

They said: "I worked at a plastic manufacturing facility once. We had a new guy who didn't know how to run a router. Instead of asking, he skipped cutting the lid out of several 250-gallon tanks and just put the lid on.

"Our QC [quality control] guy came over to our station later that night FURIOUS. I pulled the QC sticker off and told him I'd handle it. I showed the new guy how to run the router and set up the fixtures, and made him fix them all. All that to say that a good QC guy can save a s**t load of confusion."

Amazon have been contacted for comment.