friends in low places
Scribbled down on November 28th, 2006 by she
Posted in Friends & Family
A few months back our puppy sitters’ pipes burst in their basement. Since one half of the dynamic duo was out of the city at the time, the hubby was called in to help out. Tonight the favour was repaid in spades.
I should have known it was going to be one of those days. Last night I was on conference calls until midnight and had to be up again at six am for the next round of calls. It’s been brutally cold these past few days and it seemed as if the snow would never stop falling. I went to bed knowing I’d have to shovel out and praying the truck would start (I forgot to plug it in last night).
It was still snowing in the morning, so I headed home while it was still light out in order to continue the shoveling odyssey.
Things seemed to be looking up.
I planned on napping before a late night conference call but when I finally got into the house I discovered a pipe had burst under the sink. Of course the hubby is out of town. A quick call to the puppy sitters later and I was romping around the house looking for water shut off valves. Despite being able to find them, I wasn’t able to turn the shut off valve. Yep, I’m a wuss.
Like a night in shining armour, he descended on the house and wrassled with the shut off valve until we manged to stop the bleeding. Luckily for me, the house is plumbed in such a way that the water could be turned off to the sink, dishwasher, washing machine and garberator without affecting the water in the rest of the house. It’s a woman’s fantasy – the dishes and laundry can’t be done, but there’s more than enough water to fill the jacuzzi tub.
It was too late to make a trip to Home Depot or Rona tonight so that’s scheduled for tomorrow. Soon my sink will be fixed but in the mean time I can bask in the knowledge that I no longer have to empty water buckets under the sink every 20 minutes.
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November 29th, 2006 at 5:05 am
What a day! I would have run screaming for the peanut butter ice cream!
November 29th, 2006 at 9:22 am
Peanut butter ice cream would have really topped the day off. I’m allergic to peanuts…
November 29th, 2006 at 11:01 am
It’s a woman’s fantasy – the dishes and laundry can’t be done, but there’s more than enough water to fill the jacuzzi tub.
LOL
November 29th, 2006 at 8:51 pm
When my water heater blew it’s top in the middle of the night when the hubby was working a night shift, the only turn-off valve I could think of was the one to the whole house. I don’t recommend the two-story fountain in your basement at 2am thing to anyone.
My brother, who was in town overnight and had to catch a 6am plane to Yellowknife, was not amused with the evenings entertainment.
Thank heavens I had borrowed my mothers carpet cleaner the week before. Cleanup was a lot easier than it could have been, but we had to put up with the wet carpets for a week.
My employer did allow me to claim it as a ‘natural disaster’ day though as it was caused by water. Hey, I take what I can get.