Short water hoses are hard to find, I use these short hoses as leader hoses to my watering station with multiple timers. I can get several summers out of each hose.  After a couple of years of use they all seem to break the same way: the plastic connector breaks off from the hose when I try to remove it from the spigot.  I have hard water which is rough on the plastic connectors.  Brass connectors last longer but I have not found a four foot hose with all brass connectors yet.