Things Could Be Worse
So the last 12 hours or so has really bitten. Can you say that saying that way? But suprisingly, even though I had to shell out more money, and my plans today were ruined once again, I'm in a good mood. Things could have been way worse.
So last night around 11 PM I walked into the kitchen and I hear this strange sound. Mind you, I had just walked past the bathroom. Of course, I'm so stupid that the first thing I think of is it's a ghost or either a burglar. It couldn't possibly be water spewing from my toilet.
So I hear this strange sound and it scares me and I stop and I'm like what the hell? I can't move for like 2 seconds because I'm scared and I'M A RETARD THINKING IT'S A GHOST OR BURGLAR. After a couple of seconds I'm like that kind of sounds like water. So I walk about three feet to my bathroom and there is water EVERYWHERE.
It's spewing out of the bottom of the toilet where the pipe connects to the wall but on the end connected to the toilet. I run in there and start turning off the water to the toilet and I get drenched because when I say spewing, I mean SPEWING. In that like 15-30 seconds or so, I had a good 1/2 inch of water on the bathroom floor. It's times like these I'm so thankful I don't have carpet in my bathroom.
So anyway, I get it turned off and all the water sopped up with towels and I call my plumber hoping that he has 24 hour service. I'm so excited when an answering service answers and says they'll call him.
I wait and I wait and thrity minutes has gone by and nothing. I call back and they say they will just have to keep trying them because they can't get a hold of anyone. I'm like just great. So I wait another 20 minutes and I get mad and call back and ask them if they're an answering service for other plumbers or just mine and she says yes she is for others but she can't refer me to anyone else because she's answering for mine. I understand that but it annoys me nonetheless. So now I have to find another plumber with 24 hour service.
I call a couple and no one answers. So at this point it's after midnight and I hate to wake my parents but I don't know what else to do. I'm hoping they can tell me someone to call. Mind you, my toilet is still dripping water, all of which I told the answering service.
Well my dad doesn't know anyone and he says he coming over. I'm like no dad there's nothing you can do I don't want you to have to drive over here. He tells me to get some pliers and turn the water knob harder which I do and the dripping slows down a lot more. So I'm pretty confident at this point that I can just put a big tupperware bowl down there and make it until morning. In order to go to the bathroom though I had to fill the toilet tank myself with water but at least I could use it.
So I called another plumber that is right near my house because I knew from calling before he had an answering machine and I left him a message about what was going on and to please call me in the morning. Do you know he STILL hasn't called me and it's 12:30 in the afternoon. WTH?
So after all this is over and I'm about to go to sleep, mind you and 1 hour and 15 minutes later, my plumber calls. I'm so ticked I don't answer the phone and it's his wife and she leaves a message about turning off the water behind the toilet, DUH did that, and if I needed the water turned off that I needed to call the police who would get in touch with the water dept and they would come turn off my water. WTH??? SO I guess they weren't planning on coming out anyway? Why even have an answering service. SO PO'd.
They are friends of the family which is the only reason I use them and they've annoyed me several times in the past and charged way too much in my opinion. My parents said they weren't going to use them anymore after they charged them WAY too much to put on some new faucets.
So anyway, I call my dad again this morning and he tells me he knows they guy that owns Couvillion Plumbing so I call them and they answer...thank you! He comes out, really nice guy and he likes to talk so we get to talking about stuff and life somehow. Somehow we get on the subject of money...oh yeah I know talking about how much the other plumber charged and I kind of feel bad now.
I don't think he charged me enough. After he left I got to thinking about it, and I don't think he did. It was going to be 105.00 an hour. He only charged me 135.00. He replaced the pipe piece behind the commode and he replaced another piece inside my commode which was ok but would probably break soon. So it's like I feel like he didn't charge me enough for the parts or something. He was SO NICE.
He even told me he knew a lady who found nurses jobs. He doesn't know how much she charges but he's going to send me her card. I mean SO NICE.
So yeah, my job hunt is put on hold again because I'm just so tired because I didn't get much sleep. And I was going to go ahead and go see my movie Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, but when I looked at showtimes, only the 3D is showing and I HATE 3D. Tomorrow the regular one will be out, so I guess that will have to wait until next week too.
I'm just so thankful I was home last night and also that I wasn't asleep. I don't know if it would have woken me up. As much water as was in my bathroom after those few seconds, I shudder to think what my house would have been like had I not come home like 8-9 hours later. So really, I'm quite happy with the situation.
So last night around 11 PM I walked into the kitchen and I hear this strange sound. Mind you, I had just walked past the bathroom. Of course, I'm so stupid that the first thing I think of is it's a ghost or either a burglar. It couldn't possibly be water spewing from my toilet.
So I hear this strange sound and it scares me and I stop and I'm like what the hell? I can't move for like 2 seconds because I'm scared and I'M A RETARD THINKING IT'S A GHOST OR BURGLAR. After a couple of seconds I'm like that kind of sounds like water. So I walk about three feet to my bathroom and there is water EVERYWHERE.
It's spewing out of the bottom of the toilet where the pipe connects to the wall but on the end connected to the toilet. I run in there and start turning off the water to the toilet and I get drenched because when I say spewing, I mean SPEWING. In that like 15-30 seconds or so, I had a good 1/2 inch of water on the bathroom floor. It's times like these I'm so thankful I don't have carpet in my bathroom.
So anyway, I get it turned off and all the water sopped up with towels and I call my plumber hoping that he has 24 hour service. I'm so excited when an answering service answers and says they'll call him.
I wait and I wait and thrity minutes has gone by and nothing. I call back and they say they will just have to keep trying them because they can't get a hold of anyone. I'm like just great. So I wait another 20 minutes and I get mad and call back and ask them if they're an answering service for other plumbers or just mine and she says yes she is for others but she can't refer me to anyone else because she's answering for mine. I understand that but it annoys me nonetheless. So now I have to find another plumber with 24 hour service.
I call a couple and no one answers. So at this point it's after midnight and I hate to wake my parents but I don't know what else to do. I'm hoping they can tell me someone to call. Mind you, my toilet is still dripping water, all of which I told the answering service.
Well my dad doesn't know anyone and he says he coming over. I'm like no dad there's nothing you can do I don't want you to have to drive over here. He tells me to get some pliers and turn the water knob harder which I do and the dripping slows down a lot more. So I'm pretty confident at this point that I can just put a big tupperware bowl down there and make it until morning. In order to go to the bathroom though I had to fill the toilet tank myself with water but at least I could use it.
So I called another plumber that is right near my house because I knew from calling before he had an answering machine and I left him a message about what was going on and to please call me in the morning. Do you know he STILL hasn't called me and it's 12:30 in the afternoon. WTH?
So after all this is over and I'm about to go to sleep, mind you and 1 hour and 15 minutes later, my plumber calls. I'm so ticked I don't answer the phone and it's his wife and she leaves a message about turning off the water behind the toilet, DUH did that, and if I needed the water turned off that I needed to call the police who would get in touch with the water dept and they would come turn off my water. WTH??? SO I guess they weren't planning on coming out anyway? Why even have an answering service. SO PO'd.
They are friends of the family which is the only reason I use them and they've annoyed me several times in the past and charged way too much in my opinion. My parents said they weren't going to use them anymore after they charged them WAY too much to put on some new faucets.
So anyway, I call my dad again this morning and he tells me he knows they guy that owns Couvillion Plumbing so I call them and they answer...thank you! He comes out, really nice guy and he likes to talk so we get to talking about stuff and life somehow. Somehow we get on the subject of money...oh yeah I know talking about how much the other plumber charged and I kind of feel bad now.
I don't think he charged me enough. After he left I got to thinking about it, and I don't think he did. It was going to be 105.00 an hour. He only charged me 135.00. He replaced the pipe piece behind the commode and he replaced another piece inside my commode which was ok but would probably break soon. So it's like I feel like he didn't charge me enough for the parts or something. He was SO NICE.
He even told me he knew a lady who found nurses jobs. He doesn't know how much she charges but he's going to send me her card. I mean SO NICE.
So yeah, my job hunt is put on hold again because I'm just so tired because I didn't get much sleep. And I was going to go ahead and go see my movie Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, but when I looked at showtimes, only the 3D is showing and I HATE 3D. Tomorrow the regular one will be out, so I guess that will have to wait until next week too.
I'm just so thankful I was home last night and also that I wasn't asleep. I don't know if it would have woken me up. As much water as was in my bathroom after those few seconds, I shudder to think what my house would have been like had I not come home like 8-9 hours later. So really, I'm quite happy with the situation.