Monday, December 21, 2009

Who Would You Call For An Emergency Plumbing?

By Kevin Burton

How many emergency plumbing Virginia problems have you had? I heard a stand up comic joking about the most dreadful experience in the world. It starts with going to someone's home and using their bathroom. All is fine until you flush the toilet and you see it start to clog up and start to back up. You notice there is no plunger. Now the panic. You start to talk to the toilet urging it not to back up. You have one option only at this point the comic says... You have to burn down the house so no one discovers you clogged the toilet.

You know what you have to do the comedian says; you have to burn the house down before anyone finds out you backed up the toilet. Did you ever see the movie Dumb and Dumber with Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels?

There was a scene of a plumbing emergency if there ever was one. Jim Carrey and Daniels are both after the same girl. Before his date with her Carrey a bottle of laxative into Daniel's drink and as he is on his way to meet her at her house he fills his stomach and the rest of his body start to rumble.

By the time he arrives at her house he is ready to explode. He finds a bathroom and starts to relieve himself. He is so glad he found a toilet. Then he hears his date say from outside the door that the toilet does not flush, it is broken. Talk about a plumbing emergency.

One time I created a plumbing emergency. I tried to fix the leak in my bathroom sink. I figured it was a plumber with the washer. I knew I had to shut off the water supply before I started working on it. I looked under the sink and no shut off valve. I went outside the house and no shut off valve. I looked in the yard but no shut off valve. I new if I shut off the main meter out by the street the water company had to come and turn it back on so I did not want to do that.

So in my genius I decided that I could probably fix the faucet without turning off the water supply. I went back in and took a wrench and started turning the ball bearing on the faucet handle. It did not give at first. But with more pressure I felt it loosen. I thought great I will have this fixed in no time. I turned it a few more times and felt it give.

Suddenly the fixture exploded and a fountain of cold water drenched me. The water was shooting off the ceiling and showering me with cold water. I scrambled for the part that blew off. I found it by the toilet. With the water raining down on me I shoved the part back in and started to turn it back in.

I found it again on the floor and with determination I shoved it back into the faucet and was able to twist and tighten it with my wrench back into place. I caught my breath and called a plumber.

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