Turtle hat

A way to express feeling very frustrated about an ongoing or frequent situation that you seem incapable of resolving; To feel like a turtle wandering around wearing an oversized Mexican sombrero and everytime something surprises him he pulls his head into his shell and the hat falls off and his little turtle arms are too short to put it back on his head and so he is sort of forced to nuzzle it back on but then it's sitting sort of crooked and he still can't reach it to adjust it so he has to do a bit of a wobble back and forth to get it to sit properly and then something surprises him again and...