Why Do People Buy Houses????

I just got home from an interesting conversation with a lawyer in town, but before I could even sort it out I noticed a suspicious hiss coming from the basement. I opened the basement door and found that the basement was FULL of steam. A steam room. I made my way down and found a leaky pipe, spewing more steam than water. Somehow -- I fumbled around and turned off the furnace and found the hot water heater valve and stopped the gushing. But now what? Aaaaaah. My Home Heating Systems Awareness Buddy is on his way over. It's puzzling because the gushing was mostly steam -- there's some water in the basement but it seems to be largely the product of condensation and dripping from the steam, not pooling from a flow of water. Maybe this serves me right for fixing the hot water in the first place. Word to the wise: don't buy a house. Don't buy a house if you are a single woman trying to save money and you don't understand housey systems. And don't buy a house if you want to be able to quit your job and feel like you have any semblance of control over the forces in your life. Control is an illusion, right? Okay. Back to the basement.

[UPDATE: Crisis averted. New hoses on the washing machine. And a more educated Scheherazade. I'm running out of things that can break in this house -- fridge, stove, roof, hot water heater, plumbing, washer, dryer. What's left? Don't answer that.]

Comments

but, now that the crisis is over, don't you feel better.

[Sheila]

Reminds me of the time we were at my mother's one Christmas. I was taking a shower but the water wouldn't heat up so I went looking for mom. We went to the basement to look at the water heater but nothing doing although we did see water dripping from one of the pipes. We were very fortunate to have the water person come over on Christmas day and let us know he could repair same. We then had hot showers but gee, what an experience, especially when you don't know what to look for. Sheila

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