Saturday, December 5, 2009

oh, s**t...

This? Is what happens when the main sewer line in your house ends up blocked. This will make your husband call your cell phone 10 times in eight minutes in an absolute panic, telling you to please come home right away because he has to go to Menard's to buy a snake to clear the blocked pipe. And, by the way, no one can use toilets, sinks, showers, etc. until the problem is cleared up.
When the 25-ft. snake he bought doesn't get the job done, you have to call Roto-Rooter ON SATURDAY to come fix the blocked line. This causes much wailing and gnashing of teeth. And when you hear how much it's going to cost to have the Roto-Rooter guy solve this problem on one of the two days a week when you incur off-hour charges, you pretty much watch Christmas swirl down the newly flushable toilet like a... well, you get the picture.

3 comments:

Lindy said...

My advice...take the vicodin you talked about in the previous post and call it a night.

Jenn H said...

Oh no!!!! I'm so sorry. If it's any consolation, our dishwasher died last week. I've been washing dishes (for a family of 6) by hand, and I'm reeeeeally hoping Santa decides to deliver a shiny new dishwasher with a big red bow. :) (Somehow, the toilet story is still much worse. I'm sorry!)

Stacy said...

I'm really sorry you guys had to deal with that.