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October 25, 2005
Water, Water Everywhere
Call it ESP, telepathy, or just plain luck but when I dropped by the Sharp household for a paperwork reprint, I was greeted by this.
Okay, not this exactly, but you get my drift. In my entire life, I have never had the fortune of the dreaded water heater leak. Most normal people call a professional, but we here at the Sharp asylum have never been known as normal people. Certifiable, yes but never normal.
There is a perverse pleasure in being refused certain luxuries momentarily. For example, piles of laundry that could shelter four midgets will have to wait, darn it. Wrestling with a five year old slippery eel of a son is scheduled for another day. And for the icing on the cake, the sink full of dishes requiring 20 PSI of scrubbing will grieve my absence.
Losing my relaxing hot bath is a huge drawback. The inability to brush one's teeth does present quite a challenge. Some of us have the breath of four dead men stranded in a swamp, but I won't say who (the initials are D.D.) Of course, my son Casper has an uncanny ability to need the exact service that is out of order, i.e. flushable toilets if you know what I mean.
So if you hear of a family in Texas banned from the public until their hot water heater is fixed, you can say you heard it hear first. Good thing the internet isn't equipped with aroma-net.
Posted by Tish at October 25, 2005 07:04 PM
Comments
Tish, do you suffer from the dreaded & forced washing of every dish in the house every 2.4 days because of DISHWASHER LACK? I do!
Posted by: Elena at October 28, 2005 10:05 PM