Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Don't Touch That Pipe!

  As a brief follow-up to yesterday's post: here's a piece of sound plumbing advice. Don't touch that pipe. Remember the Stooges episode when they are plumbers at the fancy party and Larry pops up through the lawn and Curly plumbs himself into a cage of pipes up in the bath room and water comes out of the TV.
   If it is any later than nine AM, and you have had any less than eight hours of sleep, unless you have plenty of leeway on your credit card, it is not saturday and absolutely not sunday; Don't touch that pipe. If you only think you know what you are doing ,or only sorta know what you are doing, or your buddy sez he knows what he's doing; Don't touch that pipe. If it's only leaking a little and you don't want it to leak a lot. Don't touch that pipe.
  Yesterday I gave the curb box cover a sixteenth of  a turn and muddy water started flowing up through the lawn. The guy with a back hoe is here now. I gotta go. Remember, unless you are Gwenyth , Don't.......

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