We were just about to leave the house yesterday when I heard dripping water. On investigation the bottom of the hot water tank in one of the bathrooms was flooding out ! Not being one to panic....I was an Air Traffic Controller in a former life....I nearly fainted and screamed for help from my wife!! Having done the 'first reactions course' in the year dot, I turned everything off, and quickly drained the tank, and called the plumber. He came out straightaway, bless him, and diagnosed that a seal had blown, no eskimo jokes please! He duly replaced the seal, and life became fine and dandy again. We then went shopping. Got home in the late evening to find the same bathroom flooded!! The plumber came out again, and we now need another plate for the bottom of the tank which he can't get until Monday due to the holiday today. Luckily it's not our only bathroom so we can take showers etc elsewhere. But it's funny how these things tend to happen at weekends or on holidays when all the shops are shut isn't it?
My wife cleared up all the mess. Filthy dirty, grimy, smelly......but hey, who cares? She's good with the kids.
I told her to hurry up, and she said, "Who do you think I am, Cinderella? If I had any sense I'd walk out on you". I replied, "It's a good job you don't have any sense then". She said, "It certainly is".
I once told her that we ought to have a garage sale, she replied, "OK,but where will we put the cars?"
I came home one day and my wife had shortened all the electrical cords on all the lights. I asked her why she'd done that, and she replied, "To save on electricity of course!" She also told me there are three ways to wire a light switch, two of which can kill you. She said she'd forgotten what the third one was.....
We do tend to suffer bad luck in my family though. My great grandfather once came third in a duel.
They're still talking about having ID cards in the UK. Of course they won't just give your name, and date of birth etc., they'll also have things on them like 'He's got a bad heart, his sister is a prossie, and he once got fined twenty five pence for returning a library book late'.
The sun should shine for the next five days according to the forecast, so nothing will go wrong in my house. Well, apart from my wife's cooking that is....