This morning, I got up to get ready for early church and Sunday school. I was sitting on the pot, doing my morning constitutional, when I heard the water softener start to regenerate. It is supposed to do that in the middle of the night, but the timer must be off because it started at 7:00 AM, and this was NOT good news! When the softener regenerates, it sends gallons of water into the sewer and lasts about an hour. And the kicker is that I don't know how to turn it off!! So...here I am on the toilet, watching sewer water coming up into my bathtub and wondering if it was also rising in the toilet underneath me! The water came and came and came. I started throwing every towel in the house down onto the floor to soak stuff up, but it was a lost cause. The whole process didn't stop until 8:00, and by this time, there was water on the floor in both bathrooms, seeping under the walls into the utility room and under the stove in the kitchen, and I was scared to death to even consider flushing the toilet. Needless to say, I didn't make it to church! When the water finally went down, I managed to get my hair done and went to Sunday school.
I was telling my tale to my SS class, indicating that it was probably too much information for some, but they were amused at the telling. One gal said, jokingly, that I could have the whole sewer pipe system replaced and it would only cost me $10,000. I told her, "If I HAD $10,000, I wouldn't be waiting until Monday to call the plumber!" Thereafter, $10,000 became the class joke. It came up several times. Grandma Judy, bless her, told me in front of everyone, that I should come over to her house for lunch and to bring my soiled wet towels to wash. My response was, "No! As soon as we get out of church, I am driving to McDonald's to get the biggest Big Mac sandwich that I can and am going to hole up at home as far away from anything having to do with plumbing as I can!" The class laughed again, but I wasn't joking. That's exactly what I did! I have flushed the toilet three times today and nothing overflowed, but every time has been iffy. Hope the plumber isn't busy tomorrow!
Once the sewer is cleared, my job has only just begun. I have a ton of towels to wash. Then there are the bathroom rugs to take care of...and the bathroom floors will have to be washed with bleach water. We are talking about a whole day's worth of work here. And I'm supposed to head to my daughter's on Wednesday. Please pray that I have the energy to do all of this in time to get away!
If I could be reincarnated as a female, I would learn how to do plumbing and automobile mechanics.
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