Busy Week

It has been a really busy week here at Poverty Flats USA. We started out having to replace the garbage disposal just before leaving town to visit Granny's family. And of course, as always with a plumbing repair, it just kept snowballing. It started out as a stopped up drain in the kitchen sink. Granny came outside where I was working and said the drain was stopped up and that if I knew what was good for me I better come right now and fix it !!! Well, being the somewhat less than master plumber that I am, I did what any fix-it expert would do. I poured a qt. bottle of Liquid Lightening (sulfuric acid, for the uninformed) down the drain and waited. Didn't work!!!
So, I poured yet another qt. bottle down the drain. Well, the drain still didn't open up, but the garbage disposal sure did!!!!! That stuff ate holes in the disposal !! I had sulfuric acid all over the kitchen floor. Good thing we have clay tile floors. Granny got some on her jeans and had to throw them away. I told her to keep them because with all the holes, they were in style. Granny didn't see the humor in it that I did. Well, we finally got the drain open. And, we really needed a new disposal anyway, so I guess it wasn't all bad. I'm thinking seriously about giving up shadetree plumbing. It's really a dangerous vocation anyway. First the exploding toliet, then this. Oh, I forget to tell you about the toliet. But we'll save that for another time. I think there are still pieces of porcelin scrapnel stuck in the bathroom walls.
Have a great week. Via Con Dios DM