SeaCat
Hey, my Halo is smoking
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Ya’ll have got be kidding me right?
My morning sucked, how about yours?
This morning I get rousted out of bed by someone insistently knocking on my door and yelling at 0500. I crawl out of bed, grab my robe and Beretta and answer the door to see what in the world is going on. I’m confronted with a guy who lives up the road and he is more than a bit unhappy.
It seems he has had a water line break under his trailer and the Plumber won’t show up until sometime tomorrow. He had heard from someone else in the park that I knew a little about fixing things and now wanted, no demanded that I go to his trailer and fix the water line. Still half asleep I tell him to hang on a minute while I grab some clothes and my tool box. I change into my jumpsuit and boots, grab a flashlight and some tools as well as a bag filled with some spare parts I keep handy, (Hey my trailer is old.) before trudging up the road with this guy.
I crawl under his place and find the break in the water line easily enough. The water is blowing out with some force. Unfortunately for me the break, rupture really, is on the far side of the cut off valve. I’m going to get wet. Oh well, nothing to it but get the job done. I pull my tools under with me and start working. Out comes the pipe cutter. Two cuts later I have cut out about a foot of the old pipe and tossed it towards the opening. I cut threads into the upstream end of the pipe then thread an open valve into place. Now at least I can shut the water off.
Back to my place I go where I dig around a bit until I find a chunk of pipe roughly the right length. I also find a short section that will fit over the pipe. Under this guys trailer once more I cut the pipe to length then thread one end of it as I listen to the guys wife in the trailer screeching about my taking so long. I screw the pipe into place then use the sleeve to sweat the other end closed. I turn the water on and check for leaks, nary a drop. I crawl back out with my tools and knock on their door to tell them they had water again. I showed the guy the section of pipe with the blow out and recommended that he have his pipes checked as they were getting thin. I also asked him for the $6.00 to pay for the valve I had used. Oh that set him off. How dare I take advantage of him and his problems for my own financial gain? How dare I take so damned long to fix his pipe? He slammed the door in my face while threatening to call the cops on me if I didn’t leave. I shrugged and left while telling myself to remember his name and lot number.
By the time I returned home and had showered it was 0530. Back into the waiting arms of Morpheus I went until the alarm went off at 0630.
So how was your morning?
Cat
My morning sucked, how about yours?
This morning I get rousted out of bed by someone insistently knocking on my door and yelling at 0500. I crawl out of bed, grab my robe and Beretta and answer the door to see what in the world is going on. I’m confronted with a guy who lives up the road and he is more than a bit unhappy.
It seems he has had a water line break under his trailer and the Plumber won’t show up until sometime tomorrow. He had heard from someone else in the park that I knew a little about fixing things and now wanted, no demanded that I go to his trailer and fix the water line. Still half asleep I tell him to hang on a minute while I grab some clothes and my tool box. I change into my jumpsuit and boots, grab a flashlight and some tools as well as a bag filled with some spare parts I keep handy, (Hey my trailer is old.) before trudging up the road with this guy.
I crawl under his place and find the break in the water line easily enough. The water is blowing out with some force. Unfortunately for me the break, rupture really, is on the far side of the cut off valve. I’m going to get wet. Oh well, nothing to it but get the job done. I pull my tools under with me and start working. Out comes the pipe cutter. Two cuts later I have cut out about a foot of the old pipe and tossed it towards the opening. I cut threads into the upstream end of the pipe then thread an open valve into place. Now at least I can shut the water off.
Back to my place I go where I dig around a bit until I find a chunk of pipe roughly the right length. I also find a short section that will fit over the pipe. Under this guys trailer once more I cut the pipe to length then thread one end of it as I listen to the guys wife in the trailer screeching about my taking so long. I screw the pipe into place then use the sleeve to sweat the other end closed. I turn the water on and check for leaks, nary a drop. I crawl back out with my tools and knock on their door to tell them they had water again. I showed the guy the section of pipe with the blow out and recommended that he have his pipes checked as they were getting thin. I also asked him for the $6.00 to pay for the valve I had used. Oh that set him off. How dare I take advantage of him and his problems for my own financial gain? How dare I take so damned long to fix his pipe? He slammed the door in my face while threatening to call the cops on me if I didn’t leave. I shrugged and left while telling myself to remember his name and lot number.
By the time I returned home and had showered it was 0530. Back into the waiting arms of Morpheus I went until the alarm went off at 0630.
So how was your morning?
Cat
