Bad News: Yet another sewer backup in the basement! (Is this the third one in this house? I've lost track.*)
Good News: It's not that extensive, which probably means that it only just happened this morning. (I'm not in the basement every single day, so these things can easily get out of control before being discovered. BTDT.)
Bad News: But still. Sewage. On the floor. Of my house.
Good News: Called Roto Rooter and they're on their way!
Bad News: Roto Rooter just called to say that in fact they're not on their way, but they'll try to get here within the next 2 hours.
Good News: At least I didn't shower this morning, because I was planning on going to Pilates and showering afterward. (Why that's good news: because all that water would have been unable to reach the sewer and would have ended up on the basement floor with all the sewage.)
Bad News: Now I probably won't even make it to Pilates.
Good News: I'm fresh out of good news. Stay tuned.
*Kudos to Andy for not saying "I told you so!" about getting the sewer reamed out prophylactically (although I'm pretty sure I heard him thinking it—loudly).
Would that be the "white-hot branding iron to the abs" Pilates class that you missed? And you can't find any good news in that?
Posted by: Mark | August 03, 2007 at 05:12 PM
Raise your hand if, in 2001, you didn't snicker along with my wife and me when Katie Couric encouraged the use of Cipro(TM) against anthrax attacks...prophylatically.
Heh heh.
That's dirty. When spoken by Katie Couric.
Posted by: Joel | August 03, 2007 at 11:04 PM
I did hesitate to use "reamed out" and "prophylactically" in the same sentence...! Andy thought "preemptively" might have been a better choice.
Posted by: Karen | August 04, 2007 at 08:51 AM