Showing posts with label Blessings in Disguise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blessings in Disguise. Show all posts

Another Twilight Zone Moment...of Adventures in Plumbing?

What are the odds that I would dial a wrong number and get a plumber on the other end, just what I needed! Amazing!

Yes, I had noticed that the valve controlling the water pressure in the house was leaking, so I was going to contact father-in-law again but I guess fate had other plans. Upon dialing my father-in-law's number, an unfamiliar voice answered, and I thought perhaps it was his son? Realizing that I obviously dialed a wrong number, I made a wisecrack about being just a gal in need of a plumber with a leaky temper, a nasty wet basement, and he laughed and said that he worked for a plumber! What are the chances of that happenin'! ha!

I said really? He asked me to look at it really close and tell him where the leak was, so I did and told him it looked to be where the "nut" was, and he told me all I needed to do was tighten up the nut and there would be no more leak. He was very sweet, even got another phone call on his house phone which he got off quickly in order to follow me to the basement. After I tightened it I had no more drip! Thanks whoever you were, you helped me tremendously. Before hanging up with this mystery plumber, I did ask him when I can afford a real plumber who should I call? Pipebusters? We laughed again, and he gave the name of the business he works for locally here which I immediately recognized. I will definitely call to thank him tomorrow at his work!

Hallelujah for small miracles!

My friend Susie calls and we talk about it. She was amazed! She said I don't know how you do it, but that I was a "strange" magnet ... I guess meaning that weird things, dejavu moments, and unexplained freaky things just happen to me, which I have to say most of the time turn out to be good. She said that perhaps I should have written his number down, but how can (I told her) when I don't know which number I dialed wrong? We laughed.

Yep, chalk this one up to another unexplained and freaky happening.

A Few Days In Purgatory!

All stressed out and nobody to choke?! I seriously wanted to choke that darn lawyer Tuesday morning for his lazy, slack-assed job in doing what I had asked him to do, but that is another whole rant right there for perhaps the Queen Mother Bitch Blogship!



Tonight I went back down to check the situation and realized that the valve inside the house was dripping water fairly briskly; you know the one you have to leave on to get water into the house. The more you turned the valve the more the water dripped from around it, even in the totally shut off position. At this point a few explicatives exploded~@!*! Don't you think father-in-law would have noticed it was leaking? good grief, there was quite a puddle building, not to mention adding to my gigantic water bill!

What's a gal to do? Call father-in-law again of course! however I guess I dialed a wrong number and some guy answered, I told him I obviously dialed a wrong number, making some wisecrack about being just a gal in need a plumber with a leaky temper, a nasty wet basement, and he laughed and said that he worked for a plumber! What are the chances of that happenin'! ha!

I said really? Anyway, he proceeded to ask me where it was leaking from and I said it looked to be where the "nut" was, and he told me all I needed to do was tighten up the nut! which I did and no more drip! YAY me! a quick DYI fix! Ain't I good??

By the way, I did not see any mold anywhere and I know this basement has been wet a few times obviously, sometimes the walls get a little wet even if it rains for days on end. However, it always seems to dry out quickly though with no real problems, which is going to be the case I think this time too!

Now, if was can keep the dam from bursting! Thank you guys for all your wonderful advice, however, but if you can't send a free handyman with unlimited resources what good are yuns!