Wednesday was a long day.
I got home from work, which also happened to be day two of camp, and had 250 pigs in a blanket to make for lunch the next day.
I begin my cooking event, and someone pulled the sprayer off the hose of the kitchen sink.
Lo and behold, when you take the sprayer off the top of the hose, the water shoots out everywhere.
So we now have a huge kitchen crisis in the kitchen. No kitchen sink, a huge cooking project already underway that has a very near deadline, and three people who are extremely plumbing challenged.
Oh, yes, and it was right about 7 when all this happened.
After about an hour of trying my Dad wanted to call a plumber.
Well, my Mom decided if she took everything out from under the sink she just might be able to fix the hose.
But first, she needed to put on her "plumbing clothes". She started off down the hall and returned in the same outfit.
"Are those your plumbing clothes?" I inquired.
"Well, I guess so, since I haven't ever really done any plumbing these should work fine."
I begged to take a picture of this for you guys....just begged. And finally she agreed.
Although everyone gave valiant efforts, as I type this post early Friday morning we still have no usable kitchen sink....yes, the plumber is coming today!
So, now it is your turn! Share your most interesting plumbing story.....you know you have one!
7 comments:
Oh, you KNOW my interesting plumbing story. The day before Easter I called you to say I accidentally broke a pipe while doing excellent plumbing work and had to turn off the water to my whole house. Is that why you didn't call me to help with your plumbing crisis?? :)
Yes, Lisa. That and the fact that I was still busily trying to make 250 pigs in a blanket for the next day.... :)
the only major plumbing crisis i have encountered was the year that the first floor dorms in kenoyer flooded just as all the students were moving in. that was fun.
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there was the time a student came to my door to tell me that the lounge bathroom was backed up and had overflowed...poop and all. that was fun, too.
good times at kenoyer.
Oh Terri...Kenoyer Hall plumbing/flooding was such an adventure...now that we don't live there we can call it an adventure, right?!?
What wonderful memories I have from my time in that wonderful building...
That is funny seeing your mom up under there.
Let's see. Plumber stories...I replaced the kitchen sink once. it was fun..of course that was a few years ago and now the sink is leaking.. grrr.
Back in college while working in the dorms, I got a call one nite that a shower head fell off. What they didn't tell me was to expect water spurting out everywhere! I'm not sure why the person using the shower didn't just turn the water off. Anyway, that's where I came in. I used a clipboard to deflect the water back into the shower so I could reach the hardware to turn off the water. The "Indiana Jones" song starting playing in my head. Afterwards, "She Works Hard for the Money" and "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" - you know, the classics! Which was a welcome diversion too while I used one of the university's antique wet vaccuums to clean it all up. That was one of those crazy nites!!!
So one time I was living in Bosnia and me and my roommate were the only ones on our team there at the time. Neither of us were very proficient at the language, but we made do. Our only heat source came from the 1920's radiators that were heated by water the city supplied from some mystery water heating facility somewhere. Anyway, the water would come on and off and sometimes we had heat and other times, not so much. So a friend showed us how to adjust the radiators to let the air out through a tiny valve at the bottom. So roommate is attempting to adjust the valve by herself when suddenly the valve shoots off and water starts, not just spewing, but shooting 10 feet across the room and out her bedroom door. I hear a scream and run to see what's happening only to see my little roommate looking like a drowned rat trying to hold back the gushing volcano of water. There was no one there to help us and we had no idea how to turn off the water. And the plug/valve got lost somewhere in the middle of the whole thing. So for about half and hour my roommate stood there getting VERY wet while her bedroom flooded and her treasured Johnny Depp posters were destroyed. Finally our neighbor came over to see all the ruccus and helped us turn off the water. After that our house got kind of moldy and I got a lung infection and almost died. Well, not so much the last part, but the rest of it is all true.
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