Dear Water Heater,
We are truly sorry for whatever we said or did that made you
cry and sob so much that you wept gallons of water all over the basement
floor. Please forgive us! We want you to know that we are grateful to
you for convincing us to throw out most of the pile of stuff that was sitting
on the floor, between you and the drain.
You proved to us that we do not need that stuff.
We hope you realize that we had no choice but to replace you
with a newer version immediately. Trust
us when we tell you that we burst into tears when we saw the bill for the
installation of your replacement. No
matter the cost, though, the cold half-showers that we took today convinced us
that getting your replacement was worth every one of the many, many pennies
that it cost.
We do have to say that we had hoped you would be with us for
another year, since your installation date was March 2005 and your lifespan was
projected to be 10 years.
But still, I come back to what my son told me today: “The only time I ever found a cold shower to
be bearable was at Scout Jamboree in Virginia in the middle of the day when the
temperature was 100 degrees, and the humidity was even higher.”
With gratitude for your 9 years and 2 months of service to
us,
The Common Household
4 comments:
Ohhhhhh we had that happen once, and of course it happened the day that I had a dozen women coming over for afternoon tea. That day was a MESS. Hopefully your floor dries up nicely and the new water heater works for its entire life span.
Oh, YUCK. On the bright side: at least you got a funny blog post out of it, right? I mean, *I* enjoyed myself. I'm sure that makes it all worth it to you.
I'm having company this weekend and the kitchen drain has decided to be slow. Hope the plumbing survives the weekend...
Another one of those behind-the-scenes workhorses that we don't appreciate...until it stops working. I've become quite fond of our sump pump of late, for similar reasons.
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