(pt 3 of "nightmare weekend from gehenna")
sunday morning
we skipped church.
john and his assistant arrived at 9:30am to finish the pipes. they crawled under our house, and for the third day in a row, seismic tremors wracked our floor as they sawed away the guts of our quaint home - until about 11:30, when john appeared at our back door, covered in ... something brown.
"they didn't get it all out. there's still lots of sewage under there."
after having placed supreme confidence in the surly middle schoolers who graced our home with dead batteries and dishonesty, i was shocked that keith and curly could let us down so spectacularly.
the plumbers were not happy. they finished the job in less than ideal working conditions, and called 1-800-water-damage.
i assume that john politely explained that he didn't prefer to lay in a bed of guano while he worked, and would they kindly kindly revisit our domicile?
...that's what i think happened.
sunday afternoon
by this point, wouldn't you be tired of having guys up your pipes, down your drains, and under your house?
i hid in the bedroom when the 1-800-water-damage guys arrived. keith knocked on our door. curly lurked in the background.
"so, uh, i guess there's some more stuff under there so we'll get it out."
...right.
this time, the smell was horrific. after 3 hours i was nauseated and lightheaded, and about ready to leave when they drove away without a word. we opened all the windows and spent the evening at powell's, where i bought 3 books on mental disorders.
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I have to know...did you really buy three books on mental disorder?!?!?
Haha...see you tomorrow!
yup. i've recently become a fan of the author oliver sacks after reading his book "musicophilia" (i think i told you about that book) and i'm currently reading an autobiography of a boy with savant syndrome.
so i bought 3 more sacks books: awakenings (from which the movie was made), the man who mistook his wife for a hat, and an anthropologist on mars.
Wow! What an ordeal, is it all over? I hope for your sake it is! I may think twice before calling those guys if the need ever arose for us.
that part is. we're doing more work in our bathroom, but that's going well. i'll post about it soon.
the mr. rooter guys were really wonderful - especially john. i'd definitely recommend them for plumbing stuff. but the 1-800-water-damage guys ... whew!
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