Re: [PyrNet-L] Re: "The Plumber" (not!!)

["Mary Staudinger" <pyr4@junct.com>]

AAAHHH Jan, you made my day!!!  Still laughing!!Your stories are better than
the jokes I receive!! and have had my share of the loo backing up just when
you don't want it to.

Mary and Shylo
pyr4@junct.com



----- Original Message -----
From: "ARIEGE" <ARIEGE@xtra.co.nz>
To: "Pyrnet Pyrnet" <Pyrnet-l@gamerz.net>
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 3:24 AM
Subject: [PyrNet-L] Re: "The Plumber" (not!!)


> Been a quiet time on the List of late.  Maybe we're all trying to get rid
of
> "the Kak worm" or busy with other things.  We've had rain here in the
> Wairarapa for 7 days now and hard to keep the dogs dry and clean. Autumn
is
> upon us with winter on the way as you guys head for summer, (just a memory
> here now).  Things in an old home tend fall apart this time of the year so
> if it's not renovations then it's "home repair time"!!  Our toilet has
been
> gurgling like an old geyser ( Please feel free to ask me what an old
geyser
> is like!) for a few weeks now but push came to shove the other night when
I
> was "asked" would I mind NOT flushing the toilet the other night incase it
> woke him up seeing as he had to go to work at 2am.  I was brought up to
> flush the toilet ( except when we had the old tin tippy which contents of
> had to be buried) so I took great exception to this and asked what was
> wrong?  The toilet needed a new ballcock so one was brought home tonight
for
> installation.  The old one was taken out (and broken in the process!)  the
> new one went to be installed and lo and behold it was the wrong size!!
(why
> am I not surprised??).  A small makeshift job was then done which resulted
> in water spouting from everywhere because he had not turned the water off
at
> the mains before starting to be "Mr Plumber".  In the middle of this with
> the toilet door open in got a small Pyrenean puppy who had been digging
> outside just minutes before and was covered in mud and dirt!!  He and the
> overflow of water met and I'm still trying to clean the mess up!! Leaks
all
> contained now but the sound would be Niagara Falls on a quiet day.  There
> are usually two things banned from this house for the "home handyman" and
> they are plumbing and electricity. I now have another 5 hours of  not
> flushing  so he's not kept awake.  The public loos down the road appear
very
> attractive at this stage.  Then when he goes to work at 2am I shall flush
my
> little heart out! I have been assured that "all will be well" until he
> brings the new part home tomorrow. I am not sure if it's still pouring
with
> rain outside or it's our "dunny"!!
> Kind Regards, Jan,
> Jan Chaplin Ariege-Roussillon Pyreneans. Visit my sites at
> http://www.geocities.com/janellachaplin/ and
> http://msnhomepages.talkcity.com/PetsPl/pyreneanmountaindog/ and my latest
> Site http://msnhomepages.talkcity.com/HobbyCt/postcardcollections/
>  the site of PMDC http://www.geocities.com/pyreneans
>
>
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