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I have a full house. I am making breakfast and hear water dripping in the dining room. I hear the shower above me. I have a waterfall in the dining room! The last time I had that happen honeymooners decided to share the claw-foot tub that in not even in that bathroom now.
I get towels and start mopping up. Run upstairs and ask the poor lady in the shower to please stop. She is apologetic. I am the one apologizing!!!
Come downstairs and put a pan under (brain finally kicked in - DUH!) and go back to get breakfast in oven for 8:15 breakfast. (It is now 9AM and they are not down yet - and breakfast is an egg bake that will now be like shoe leather on top of everything else). Ka-thud! The ceiling tile comes crashing down!!!
Now I can see the problem - the drain and the drainpipe have parted company. I now have 2 emergency calls in to the plumbing shop (closed Saturday of course), called the owner at home - voice mail, called the woman who works in the office - voice mail, and am ready to spit nails because I cannot remember anyone's name that works there, breakfast is a disaster, and I cannot do anything about it!! After breakfast I will put the ladder up again and see if I can figure out how to attach the pipe to the collar..... I would settle for them tearing up my street right now!
WAH-WAH-WAH-WAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!
I get towels and start mopping up. Run upstairs and ask the poor lady in the shower to please stop. She is apologetic. I am the one apologizing!!!
Come downstairs and put a pan under (brain finally kicked in - DUH!) and go back to get breakfast in oven for 8:15 breakfast. (It is now 9AM and they are not down yet - and breakfast is an egg bake that will now be like shoe leather on top of everything else). Ka-thud! The ceiling tile comes crashing down!!!
Now I can see the problem - the drain and the drainpipe have parted company. I now have 2 emergency calls in to the plumbing shop (closed Saturday of course), called the owner at home - voice mail, called the woman who works in the office - voice mail, and am ready to spit nails because I cannot remember anyone's name that works there, breakfast is a disaster, and I cannot do anything about it!! After breakfast I will put the ladder up again and see if I can figure out how to attach the pipe to the collar..... I would settle for them tearing up my street right now!
WAH-WAH-WAH-WAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!