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Bad, really bad day at work. Come home, need peace & quiet, need to relax. I change into comfy clothes and pad barefooted out of the bedroom. Brain registers something is amiss. What, oh what could it be. Brain fires off warning signal, "look down Matata, look down." Down I look to find I''m standing in a puddle of water outside the master bedroom door. Water is covering my feet. Primitive brain stem sends "this is not good" message to frontal lobes which are in denial regarding the situation. Frontal lobes misfire causing me to turn to scream at the cat who is dozing on the bed "What did you do you bad kitty, bad baaaaad kitty."
Run to kitchen, mix up vodka tonic to assist with cognitive functions. Run outside to shut off water to house. Run to yellow pages, start calling plumbers. Did you all know that even tho there are 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
plumbers listed and 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 of them claim to do 24 hour emergency service IT IS A LIE!!!!!!!!!!! The drain uncloggers are available 24 hours, not the plumbers. However to each inquiry of "what is the nature of your problem" from the 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 I had to tell the same story--water, deep, over feet, spreading quickly--only to hear 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 times that "sorry, we can come out to shut off the water but we can''t fix it until tomorrow."
Mix another vodka tonic. Page 5 of the plumbers, finally got someone willing to come to house. $359 for first hour and $85 per 15 minutes thereafter. Bladder is overflowing from 2 vodka tonic. "Come," I scream, "I don''t care how much it costs." Mix 3rd vodka tonic.
Altho there is a hole in the bedroom wall of significant proportions, vast acres of carpeting are soaked and squishy, and the cat refuses to speak to me, some good comes of this...
1. The plumber was a HUNK; I think I should have paid him more
2. I wanted to repaint & replace carpet anyway
3. I found that I have more bladder control than I thought
G''nite ya''ll, thanks for listening.
Run to kitchen, mix up vodka tonic to assist with cognitive functions. Run outside to shut off water to house. Run to yellow pages, start calling plumbers. Did you all know that even tho there are 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
plumbers listed and 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 of them claim to do 24 hour emergency service IT IS A LIE!!!!!!!!!!! The drain uncloggers are available 24 hours, not the plumbers. However to each inquiry of "what is the nature of your problem" from the 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 I had to tell the same story--water, deep, over feet, spreading quickly--only to hear 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 times that "sorry, we can come out to shut off the water but we can''t fix it until tomorrow."
Mix another vodka tonic. Page 5 of the plumbers, finally got someone willing to come to house. $359 for first hour and $85 per 15 minutes thereafter. Bladder is overflowing from 2 vodka tonic. "Come," I scream, "I don''t care how much it costs." Mix 3rd vodka tonic.
Altho there is a hole in the bedroom wall of significant proportions, vast acres of carpeting are soaked and squishy, and the cat refuses to speak to me, some good comes of this...
1. The plumber was a HUNK; I think I should have paid him more
2. I wanted to repaint & replace carpet anyway
3. I found that I have more bladder control than I thought
G''nite ya''ll, thanks for listening.
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