I hate Christmas-time. Not only because I’m a neo-pagan surrounded by the festive people running into each other for a parking space at the overly crowded mall, and people getting into fist fights over the last Guitar Hero box for their loved one.
No, I hate Christmas-time because every December, something major breaks in our house and causes us to delve deeper into debt.
Notable things that have broken in December:
1.) Squirrel electrocuted itself on our power line and took out our old fridge
2.) Dishwasher opted to spew its water onto the floor instead of clean our dishes
3.) Stove began to spark and flame shortly after thanksgiving (no pumpkin pie that year)
4.) A rat that was sitting on the exterior heat pump intake let his little tail dangle into the fan, so that when the fan turned on, puree rat and dead heat pump.
5.) Our dog ruptured his disk and required $7,000 surgery (he’s fine now, thankfully) on CHRISTMAS DAY.
So, when I let our dogs out this morning and heard drip, drip, drip, it came as absolutely, positively no surprise to me that one of our copper pipes had sprung a leak. Why now? What could have possibly happened right this very second to cause a copper pipe that worked perfectly fine when we went to bed to now spew forth with water? Who knows, other than its December and these things happen.
Since it was 5am we opted to be nice and not call the 24 hour plumber that charges by the job and not by the hour, we decided to wait until a more sane hour to call. Apparently we should have been assholes and called because now they’re going to try to “squeeze us in” between noon and 4pm, as other people not as nice as us have already called about their pipes bursting for no reason and now we don’t know if we’ll even get it fixed today.
In a normal house, all we would need to do is turn off the water that goes to that pipe (its apparently one of the main intake pipes, of course), but in our house, the house that was built by morons that did everything on the cheap, we hardly have any shut off valves to anything, which means if one pipe goes, we generally have to shut off the water to the whole house. Which is what we had to do.
Shutting off water to the entire house means no water, period. Of course, the very second we shut the water off to the entire house I wanted coffee, which requires water. The dog bowls were empty, which require water. Flushing the toilet requires water. Its a never ending requirement of water. We put a few buckets down to catch the leak water, turned the water on and filled up bowls, pitchers, coffee pots and everything else that would hold water, then shut it off again. Hubby immediately flushes the toilet after that and curses. Its going to be a good day.
One nice thing is that I truly have a reason for not doing laundry or the dishes. Unfortunately without that task to do, I’m forced to do some of the other things that I’ve been procrastinating on for weeks and using the “must do laundry and dishes” excuse. Sonofa...
No, I hate Christmas-time because every December, something major breaks in our house and causes us to delve deeper into debt.
Notable things that have broken in December:
1.) Squirrel electrocuted itself on our power line and took out our old fridge
2.) Dishwasher opted to spew its water onto the floor instead of clean our dishes
3.) Stove began to spark and flame shortly after thanksgiving (no pumpkin pie that year)
4.) A rat that was sitting on the exterior heat pump intake let his little tail dangle into the fan, so that when the fan turned on, puree rat and dead heat pump.
5.) Our dog ruptured his disk and required $7,000 surgery (he’s fine now, thankfully) on CHRISTMAS DAY.
So, when I let our dogs out this morning and heard drip, drip, drip, it came as absolutely, positively no surprise to me that one of our copper pipes had sprung a leak. Why now? What could have possibly happened right this very second to cause a copper pipe that worked perfectly fine when we went to bed to now spew forth with water? Who knows, other than its December and these things happen.
Since it was 5am we opted to be nice and not call the 24 hour plumber that charges by the job and not by the hour, we decided to wait until a more sane hour to call. Apparently we should have been assholes and called because now they’re going to try to “squeeze us in” between noon and 4pm, as other people not as nice as us have already called about their pipes bursting for no reason and now we don’t know if we’ll even get it fixed today.
In a normal house, all we would need to do is turn off the water that goes to that pipe (its apparently one of the main intake pipes, of course), but in our house, the house that was built by morons that did everything on the cheap, we hardly have any shut off valves to anything, which means if one pipe goes, we generally have to shut off the water to the whole house. Which is what we had to do.
Shutting off water to the entire house means no water, period. Of course, the very second we shut the water off to the entire house I wanted coffee, which requires water. The dog bowls were empty, which require water. Flushing the toilet requires water. Its a never ending requirement of water. We put a few buckets down to catch the leak water, turned the water on and filled up bowls, pitchers, coffee pots and everything else that would hold water, then shut it off again. Hubby immediately flushes the toilet after that and curses. Its going to be a good day.
One nice thing is that I truly have a reason for not doing laundry or the dishes. Unfortunately without that task to do, I’m forced to do some of the other things that I’ve been procrastinating on for weeks and using the “must do laundry and dishes” excuse. Sonofa...
1 comment:
I think the same people who built your house must have built mine. I have no shut offs for either the gas or the water, other than the external shutoff for the whole house.
These are also the same retards that wired the house in such a way that appliances in four different rooms and the basement are on the same breaker so that means if you have the dishwasher running, and the furnace happens to click on, then the living room shorts out.
Of course, the two bare bulbs hanging in the garage are each on their own breaker. Wouldn't want to overload it, or anything.
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