First Marriage Disaster
Posted by dminor Mon, 06 Oct 2003 22:33:00 GMT
Disclaimer: This is an email I received from a recently married family memeber. I’ll of course not change their names as we all know who they are anyway, and if you don’t know, it doesn’t matter if you know their first names.
Coming up on 10 years of marriage myself, I find this extremely refreshing to remember those young, foolish days of love, and I am encouraged to think that this would never happen in my house—now or then.
Dear all,
We thought you all might like to share in our first marriage disaster. It happened last night at about 11:00 while I was studying and Monica was in the bathroom trying to figure out how to fix our leaky faucet. She had quite enough and was tired of waiting for me to figure out how to fix it. I’m sure some of you have caught on to what is about to happen, I just wish I would have when I told her where the power screw driver was.
I was studying hard, not paying attention to the electric screwdriver making noise in the bathroom, when all the sudden I hear a scream from the bathroom accompanied by the sound of a large waterfall. So I got up from my slumber and what did I see…Monica trying to re-enact the Great Flood and covering up the hot water knob on the sink with water shooting straight up to the ceiling. “Ben, do something-it’s really hot,” she exclaims and leaves me with the burning hot water shooting through our roof. First dumb thing that comes into my mind-”How in the world do I turn this off?” So I pulled a towel off the rack and covered the hot water and it dawned on me that obviously the hot water shutoff is under the sink. I turned it off just as the electricity in the bathroom shut off because water had gotten into the outlet on our wall. The bathroom was completely soaked and all she could do is laugh and all I could do is act like I would have known to turn the water off before unscrewing the faucet.
Now for a few funny things: I was actually studying about the Flood for a test in archaeology when this all happened. Also, Monica had decided to experiment with the hot water faucet knob before fixing the cold water knob which was causing the problem. Funny thing is this-the cold water shut off knob under the sink does not work at all-it needs a new part because it is threaded. So, if Monica had worked on the cold water knob first like she should have, we would have never ever been able to shut it off!!
Sorry for the long story, but here are the morals of the story. Men: hide your power tools and lock them up, and for goodness sakes, take care of things before she tries to. Women: There are better ways to get your man’s attention, put the power tools down, we’ll fix it eventually.
Talk to you soon, Ben and Monica
I’m just impressed that he had a screwdriver!
