A Happy Plumber
by Christy of Menomonie, Wis.
Bulletin Board, St. Paul Pioneer Press
01/09/2015
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In the middle (please?) of a long, long winter, it doesn't take much to make a plumber happy!
The plumber who arrived to fix our toilet leak was very pleasant and conversational -- quite the contrast to the last, grumpy, monosyllabic plumber. I thought: 'Now here is a man who enjoys his work.' This repair was quite simple, so he was done quickly. He lingered by the front door before leaving and said he was sorry our job didn't take him very long to complete.
Turns out he had to return to his previous work-in-progress: crawling through the snow under a house trailer to thaw out frozen pipes. On a day when the temperatures were below-zero and with obscene wind-chills, I could see why a leaky-indoor-toilet job would make him very happy.
[to be filed under "14,001 things to gripe about"]
The plumber who arrived to fix our toilet leak was very pleasant and conversational -- quite the contrast to the last, grumpy, monosyllabic plumber. I thought: 'Now here is a man who enjoys his work.' This repair was quite simple, so he was done quickly. He lingered by the front door before leaving and said he was sorry our job didn't take him very long to complete.
Turns out he had to return to his previous work-in-progress: crawling through the snow under a house trailer to thaw out frozen pipes. On a day when the temperatures were below-zero and with obscene wind-chills, I could see why a leaky-indoor-toilet job would make him very happy.
[to be filed under "14,001 things to gripe about"]
