Last night I got a phone call late at night. It was a couple of the kids next door. The same kids that I drive to school, when school is on that is. They are on vacation now. A couple of those kids graduated from high school already, but I was talking to the 2nd eldest son, who did graduate already and the girl that would be a senior in high school this coming August.
That girl now calls me uncle. Well, I have been driving those kids around since December of 2019. Wow, that would be 6 years come December.
Well anyway. They told me there is this leak, like a pipe broke in the backyard and it is kind of flooding. So I try and look for any conventional type of water cut off. Usually at a water outlet it is a straight line from the water meter.
I did carry a flash light in my fannypack which I use nowdays as my wallet can sometimes cause me sciatica, and to avoid that I put most of my stuff in my big fannypack, instead of putting stuff in my pockets.
I ordered my fannypack from Amazon. One of the comments on this product, a guy says he can easly fit his Glock into it. Well, that was enough for me to buy it right there, not that I have a Glock, but I do throw some tactical knives in there too. Well, I am 66 years old as I write.
Well anyway, they wanted me to come outside and help them find the water cut off valve. They told me that the backyard might have busted a pipe and they wanted to cut off the water. It is that I didn't see anykind of a water cutoff valve.
By this time the girl had already gone back into the house. I told the 2nd eldest boy, that I don't even have a cutoff valve, at my house. If I have to cut off the water, the plumber goes and cuts it off at the water meter.
We did go to the water meter and I told him I don't like cutting it off there cause if you break the pipe, cause if we break the pipe that is before the meter, he would have to pay for that break, and they use plastic pipe for some reason, well, to save money, so I told him I didn't want to do that anyway as you can't even use a faucet or use the toilet.
I reasoned with the boy, that maybe he should just let the water run, and that they just have to pay for that extra water.
I mentioned that cause I said, You know your landlord can probably fix this. Then the boy told me that he would be there in the morning, but couldn't come at that moment. The landlord also owns a restaurant, and was probably there solving his own restaurant problems.
So I talked the boy into just waiting till the landlord guy comes in the moring and let him figure it out and don't worry about the leak until then.
So I said, Good bye and went back into my house.
Let's end with a scripture, as it is written, with Jesus speaking, I am the vine, ye the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. John 15:5.
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