Everyday Is Better Than The Next

After work yesterday me and Shaun went and played some tennis. I come home around 5 ready to take a shower and relax. As I am walking in the back door I notice both doors are open and their are wet towels laying outside. Strange…

So I walk in the house and there is water everywhere. I mean all over the floor, the ceiling, the walls, the clock, the counter, fucking just everywhere. I’m looking at my wife like “What the F happened in here”

I guess our water bill was a little high so she thought she was going to take action by fixing the sink that leaks. She started not by turning off the water, but by taking of the handle on the sink. The handle that holds back the water. So when she takes that off water starts shooting out at 50 pounds per square inch. Then she can’t find out how to turn it off. In a panic, she runs down the street and find some random guy in the alley and asks him to help. At first he can’t find the shut-off so she calls the cops hoping to get the city over to our house to shut the main off, but right after she hangs up with the cops random guy find the shut-off valve and turns off the water.

When the handle was removed all the gaskets and everything blew out of the faucet and somewhere in the kitchen, so it’s not like we can just put the sink back together and turn the water back on. We have to get a new faucet, install it, and then we can turn the water back on. It’s going to be a long night..

We decided to go ahead and just get a brand new sink. I mean if we are going to get a new faucet why not just replace the sink while we are at it. We make a trip to the Home Depot and get a new sink, faucet, and the hardware I need to install the beast (the sink weighs about 150 pounds, seriously). I get home look at the hardware, as luck would have it my house has some kind of gay water pipe that is smaller than your average water pipe. So the wife goes back to Home Depot to get the right stuff. I don’t know what I was thinking sending a woman to get stuff from a hardware store because of course she came back with the wrong stuff.

At this point it’s 10 PM, and I’m near panic. We have no water in the house, I have been sweating all day, smell real bad, I’m dirty as hell, and I can’t take a shower. So in an attempt to close off the water pipes so we can turn the water back on I give it my best teflon tape rig job and head downstairs to turn on the water. I get to the water main and discover that it’s not off. Ummm… Ok, so I get looking around and following pipes around in the basement. It turns out that random guy found a shut-off valve in the basement that turns off all the water to the downstairs of the house. I didn’t even know this valve existed. So that means that we had water upstairs (in the bathroom) the whole time.

In the end I think it worked out pretty well. We got a new sink and faucet, and I got to take a shower today. Such is the life of an urban man.