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It Pours

My grandmother used to say, "It never rains but it pours." Bit of a pessimist, my grandmother.

Or perhaps a bit of a realist.

I am having pouring issues right now.

I returned to VT from my place in Florida where I have been for the past three weeks. My friend Don was picking me up at the airport. He found an app the kept track of the progress of my flight -- a good thing since my flight from JFK to Burlington was delayed. He didn't have to hang around a nearly empty airport waiting for me. We got to my place at 11:30 p.m.*

I was tired. I didn't hear Don getting up and into the shower but I did hear him yelling when he went downstairs. I now have a shower that allows two people to wash up at once -- on in the tub upstairs and one standing under the ceiling light fixture in the dining room.

Good thing he was here. For one thing, he takes really quick showers whereas I take longer and would have pumped a lot more water through the leaking drain. Main thing: he is a plumber. So I'm looking forward tot he romantic Christmas gift of a new tub drain and ceiling repair this year.

*Margaret, not burying another lead, just not over sharing some things.

Comments

  1. TaborDecember 12, 2018 at 6:21 PM

    Oh, I am so sorry. We have a leaking roof and just had an initial repair done, and hope it will work!!

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  2. Linda ReederDecember 12, 2018 at 10:24 PM

    An unpleasant surprise, for sure, but at least help is at hand.

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  3. Margaret (Peggy or Peg too)December 13, 2018 at 10:14 AM

    HA! You may even think I overshare and if you knew the stuff I DIDN'T WRITE! :-)

    Sorry about the drain but how great you don't have to pay a plumber.
    The saying in our family was 'When it rains, it pours' I never understood it really.I assumed it just meant it is never a light rain, it is always bad. So like your grandmother it wasn't positive. But it's been my experience with my family that nothing they say is a positive, only seen and spoken in the negative.

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  4. Silver in AZDecember 13, 2018 at 10:46 AM

    yikes! Sorry about that! Glad it was caught early!

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  5. gigihawaiiDecember 13, 2018 at 12:11 PM

    Oh, my. It's good to have a plumber for a friend. Plumbers charge a lot, don't they?

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  6. TomDecember 13, 2018 at 3:37 PM

    Great story! When it rains it pours? Morton salt, right?

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  7. SakuDecember 23, 2018 at 7:44 PM

    Oh my...what a welcome home. But it is good to hear you have someone willing and able to make the necessary repairs.

    Eileen

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  8. BarbDecember 29, 2018 at 5:57 PM

    Oh, goodness. Thank Heaven for friendly plumbers...

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