Joys of Marriage
Sometime near halftime of the Packers latest debacle I heard a running stream of water hitting my kitchen floor.My wife was filling the bath tub for my daughter at the time, so I yelled to her if the water was overflowing upstairs. It was.
Water was coming out of our kitchen overhead light fixture, and coming out of a crack in the ceiling plaster. And it was coming down in a steady rain.
Near as I can tell, the water pooled on the bathroom floor and spread to the wall vent. The water went under the vent cover and trickled on the outside of the vent ducts. It rained down the ducts to the ceiling of the kitchen and must have pooled on the ceiling plaster.
From there it rolled to the hole in the ceiling where the lighting fixture was, then rolled to the crack in the plaster, and eventually to the kitchen wall. There it rolled in between the walls to the outside of another vent, and finally down to the basement.
To dry out the ceiling fixture I had to rip down the fixture facade. It would take too long to describe the problem, but let's just say that I screwed up a bit and it will require some fixin'.
It took an hour or so for the water to stop dripping, and the whole time I just kept thinking about how much money this will cost me.
The wife felt bad about it, and I was pissed so I'm sure that made her feel worse. But I told her it was ok, it's not really her fault anyway.
Still, it could be worse. It can always get worse. Except for the Packers, ...I'd call this rock bottom. Hey, there's another good nick name for Ted Thompson, Ted "rock bottom" Thompson.
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