What strikes fear into the heart of every homeowner?
Releasing the handle of the toilet and seeing the water move not down, but reverse course and flood back up at you.
We’re having plumbing issues again. This is the second time in three years (the first instance cost us over $250, the weblog post documenting that adventure having been lost in the great service provider migration of 2006).
Fortunately for Susie, me and our checkbook, we learned from our past mistake. Well, we learned the necessary steps to fix the problem. Keeping the problem from occurring in the first place is a lesson we need to spend more time with.
Susie started digging up the septic tank lid, while I drove home from work. Today’s rain helped to soften the earth. Using my brute, herculean strength I was able to remove the lid and we made short work of the offending material.
I suppose it can be said that in this economy, we should have called a local company to come fix our problem. But I’m much more of a handle-it-myself kind of guy. It’s an ego thing, I guess. Besides, Susie and I make a dynamite team.
To quote Jerry Seinfeld, “This is the most frightening moment in the life of a human being.”