mum, it's PIPES!
Feb. 1st, 2018 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
phosfateTime to get the tree roots out of the outflow thing again. I wouldn't mind except it makes one of the worst possible noises a house can make when they grind it out, so I was trying not to do a fetal curl over my laptop while ripping the seams off a tiny Power Rangers doll uniform. (I don't know why they call it a seam ripper. Using it is actually very tiny and fussy most of the time.)
The first plumber refused my coffee.
Then he phoned for backup. I didn't ask why, because there are things Ann was not meant to know.
Backup was the old (formerly not old) guy who's been doing my plumbing on and off since the eighties. He got coffee AND a gimme travel mug from a health conference, because my boss always fills a tote bag with conference souvenirs of varying usefulness. "See?" I told first plumber. "You coulda had coffee AND a mug." He was not impressed. You'll learn, kid. You'll learn.
I now qualify for the hella old person discount.
The first plumber refused my coffee.
Then he phoned for backup. I didn't ask why, because there are things Ann was not meant to know.
Backup was the old (formerly not old) guy who's been doing my plumbing on and off since the eighties. He got coffee AND a gimme travel mug from a health conference, because my boss always fills a tote bag with conference souvenirs of varying usefulness. "See?" I told first plumber. "You coulda had coffee AND a mug." He was not impressed. You'll learn, kid. You'll learn.
I now qualify for the hella old person discount.
