Tue, 24 Jan 2006 at 5:32 pm
What a mess!
At lunchtime today, 3 guys showed up to fix the water main right in front of our house. The leak was identified last Friday by the park manager — he showed me where the water was bubbling up from under the ground. He asked if we had noticed any drop in water pressure. I said “no.” He said “Well, its going to get better.”
So, today at lunchtime, three workers show up with a back-hoe and say that they are here to fix the water leak. I say “Great, have at it. I’m heading back to work.” My wife was home, so I figured that if they had any questions or problems, they could ask her.
Later that day, I had to pick up Amber from school, since she stayed after. Cindy couldn’t go because she was running her daycare and had 2 little ones at the house. So, I left work around 2:30, picked up Amber, and brought her home. When I got there, I found a HUGE hole in the front left corner of our yard. It was about 5′ deep and 8′ x 10′ wide.
The back-hoe was sitting idle. There was no sign of the three workers.
I went inside and looked at my exhasperated wife. “We have no water. The guys had to leave to get a ‘part’,” She said.
“A part? What kind of part?” I said
“They didn’t say.”
It must have been one huge part to require all three of them to get it. I shook my head, and headed back to work.
SeLiNa Says:
January 24th, 2006 at 8:48 pm
sorry to hear about your water catastrophe! i guess they weren’t the smartest guys in town if it took 3 of them to get “a part”… more likely they went off to smoke a doobie!
btw… thanks for the link. i just put yours up too!
TJ Says:
January 25th, 2006 at 6:14 am
Welcome aboard, Lingo. Honored to have you here. I like your site.