A different first for me

[greatbear]

As most of you who read my posts know, I have been dealing with serious, debilitating back issues for several years, the latest episode starting last September. As a result, I can't do most of the things I am able to do. This has me falling behind in house repairs and projects, for one. I just can't do these things, or it's now a long, often painful process. Imagine my utter frustration while taking a shower Monday night and finding the water backing up around my feet. Then finding the toilets completely backing up too. The "old" (read: young, able) me would've simply jumped right in, pulling up toilets or cutting pipes in order to get rid of the blockage. No can do, so I called on a plumber (never did that before, unless I was subcontracting them for a job) on Tuesday, which didn't show until today. I was a tad skeeved at this, but as long as he could do the job, I didn't care. Besides, I was holding it in for a couple days now. Imagine my dismay when the plumber dispatches a guy that has similar back issues as I am currently dealing with. The two of us were hobbling like two broken old men (though he was considerably younger than me) surveying the problem and what to do. I even did the work of disconnecting and removing the toilet to help out, he machine-snaked the drain, clearing the blockage and we were done in a little over an hour. He was barely making it back out to his truck with his supplies. Me being me, I felt bad for the scrawny guy, as I was bracing my own broken body against the door as I let him out.

Irony is so much interwoven with my life, I should open up a foundry business.

Comments

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Zing!

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

That is pretty bad when the plumber of all people has back issues. Adding salt to the womb, so to speak is he's younger than you, and yet, as you say, isn't it ironic, don't you think?

[mort-83.livejournal.com]

That should be on a t-shirt.

Contractors.... *grumble*......

[dan4behr.livejournal.com]

You should see the HVAC technician that comes to my house twice a year to perform contracted HVAC maintenance.
I keep that maintenance contract going A: to keep the 17 year-old Apollo HydroHeat system going (you can't get new ones anymore....) and B: I love getting an eyefull. He could do bear porn.