Friday, September 23, 2011

A Wrench in the Plans

This is a plumbing update: Neither my main water valve nor my sink have been repaired yet. As you may remember from my lovely ditty last month, we are waiting for my plumber and the city water department to coordinate and show up at my house on the same day at the same time. We have had two dates when this was theoretically possible but neither worked out. The first time, the city backed out because of a water main break that took first priority. On the second date, which was Wednesday, everything was good to go when- I am not making this up- my plumber called to say his truck had broken down on the freeway on the way to my house and that it was currently being towed to a dealership.
Either my plumber is a pathological liar, or I have the worst luck with plumbing in the history of indoor water-usage. So once again, I am waiting for another magical day in which both the water department and the plumber are available. I am pretty sure this involves complicated astrology charts in which the plumber's zodiac sign (aquarius maybe?) must be in the twelfth house, the dwarf-planet Pluto must be closer to the sun than Neptune and these events must fall during a blue moon cycle. My best guess is that my sink will get fixed sometime in the year 2019.

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