Sometimes I think I was placed on earth to be an encouragement to others, and the way God wants me to fulfill that role is by showing people that no matter how stupid they may sometimes feel, there’s always someone who really is more stupid than them.<\/p>\n
Think I’m being overly modest? How’s this for lowering the intelligence bar. Remember that water heater we replaced this morning (see previous post)? Nothing wrong with it. I paid hundreds of dollars to get a perfectly good water heater replaced…and now I’m waiting to pay another plumber more money to replace the leaking pipe in the wall behind<\/strong><\/em> the water heater.<\/p>\n Here’s my excuse, if you’re finished with the derisive laughter.<\/p>\n When I found the leak this morning, it was in the form of a steady spray emanating from behind the water heater. I couldn’t see behind the unit, so I tried to locate the leak by touch. What I felt was the stream of water from the leak in the wall bouncing off the water heater in such a way as to convince me that was the source. Of course, by the time the plumber arrived to replace the heater, I had shut off the water, and he assumed that no one could be so ignorant as to mistake the source of a water leak. If I insisted the water heater needed replacing, he wasn’t going to question it.<\/p>\n As it turned out, there was a pinhole in the copper pipe carrying hot water to our washing machine. Fortunately, the hole pointed outward, into the garage, or we would be looking at replacing a bunch of newly painted drywall in the laundry room, instead of being able to do a simpler patch job in the garage closet.<\/p>\n And on the positive side of things, I’m now quite accomplished at shutting off the water supply at the meter, in case a real emergency arises. Oh, and I’m also now on a first name basis with all the spiders in the meter box, so I’ve got that going for me.<\/p>\n Now, don’t you feel better about your own life?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wherein is explored the meaning of life, as viewed through the lens of incompetence…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kitchen-sink","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5819,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions\/5819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}