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Oct. 24, 2006 On Saturday we noticed that suddenly we had no hot water. We checked the water heater and the pilot light was out. My husband is hardly in any shape to be playing with pilot lights so I called a neighbor to come re-light my fire........ He said to me, "Listen, do you hear that sound?" I listened and I heard the sound of dripping water inside the tank. Of course, it was keeping the pilot light from staying lit and we were not going to have any hot water for the duration. I called my Home Owner's Contract people and they set up an appointment for me with a local plumber. Yesterday, the plumber came (I was only charged $45 because that's what the contract specifies) and he "diagnosed" the problem. We needed a new water heater because the old one had lived way past it's normal ten year shelf life. It was installed in 1974!! Today, the same plumber returned and installed a brand new water heater only this one is 40 gallons instead of 30 and has all the bells and whistles of modern technology. All fine...hot water again. But wait.....about 15 minutes after he left my house I heard what sounded like a huge snake hissing (not an impossibility here in the Southwest). I ran to the water heater closet and opened the door. VOILA.....instant shower. There was water squirting, pouring and spraying all over the place. I got drenched, the walls got drenched, the floor got drenched as I stood there in amazement. My husband suddenly seemed to regain all of his lost faculties and yelled for me to call the plumber back and tell him that we had an emergency. It's a good thing that he had presence of mind because I would probably still be standing there watching in awe as 40 gallons of water sprayed my way. The plumber is here right now and showed us where the leak was ( I really didn't need the tour), and he is attempting to fix it. This would be no big deal I suppose except that this ALWAYS happens to us whenever ANYTHING new is installed in our home or within fifty miles of us, it seems. We got a new wall in our carport in expectation of someday adding a garage...it settled and started to look weird. It had to be fixed. We got a new dishwasher and the first time that I ran it we had three feet of suds on our kitchen floor which required a wet/dry Vac to clean it up. It had a flaw and had to be replaced which resulted in having no dishwasher at all for three weeks. We had the fixtures changed on all of the showers and sinks in our home because this place was built in the 60's. Every one of the new ones dripped. They had to be replaced and re-installed. So on and on it goes and I suppose it will continue for as long as I live. Is it possible to be born with a gene that guarantees that NOTHING will ever work right the first time? Is it a condition or a curse? Anyone who tells you that there is no such thing as Murphy's Law....tell them to give me a call and I will set them straight. Fortunately, it's still pretty warm here and I am not catching a chill as I sit here in my damp clothes typing. Oh...and my printer broke while I was simply changing a cartridge which I have done a hundred times before. This last time it broke the entire printer so I no longer have one. I now understand the title of that television show with David Spade........"Just Shoot Me". I know that several of you reading this would like nothing better!!!!! ------------ About the author: Meri has a Medical/Legal background and is a former forensic researcher specializing in psychological profiling. https://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.asp?bookid=27335 Email: writers2@cox.net Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com. Please link to this article rather than copying and pasting it onto your site (which would be unauthorized and illegal). |
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