You tell 'em, Bob!

[shadesofmauve]

When Pete and I moved in to this place, we were warned to be careful taking showers. Something said by the chatty wife-of-the-landlord in passing, with a few worrisome glances at a very water-damaged corner of the kitchen. No problem, we said, and went off to take various showers, returning to find the crock-o'-kitchen utensils (refered to 'round here as The Crock o' Shit) had become a crock 'o water.

This was back in april, and I got out my trusty little toolbox and my trusty little debit card, and I tacked a shower curtain over the offending wall of the 'tub surround', which has a wood framed window set in it, which we deemed to be the culprit. All was fine and dandy - the leaks pretty much stopped.

Then the cold water tap started having problems.

Then I had a row of incredibly busy weeks, and my joints decided to contribute. So I had a bath. The next morning, my kitchen was soaked. Plumbing issues, anyone?

It's been drip-drip-dripping for days now. It fills up at least a mixing bowl every eight hours, and yesterday it had overflowed onto the floor, which made me decide against a hot breakfast using the electric stove this morning. I settled for a granola bar and a cup of milk which, though it hadn't turned, was definitly looking around the corner. Then I went to work and tried to call the landlord, three times, without even hitting voiicemail. I asked my neighbors (his daughter, her SO, and their kids*) if they had an alternate number, and they said he had a heart attack over the weekend and they'd put in a stint.

I. Am. Moving.

The good side of this is that I get to use the icon I thugged from someone over at metaquotes!

*Their kids are adorable. When I was talking to David, the 20-month-ish-old toddled out, grabbed a finger or two with each hand, and just stood there the entire time we talked. I suppose he was feeling friendly.

Comments

[westrider.livejournal.com]

Yep, that sounds like it's fucked to me.

It figures that pretty much as soon as you found that Icon, you found something worth using it for ;-)

The parts of the kitchen work I can help with are wrapping up, so I'll be back down Wednesday night, actually gonna stay for at least a few days this time.

[shadesofmauve]

Great - I'll look forward to having someone to help empty out the mixing bowls. :P This is ridiculous!

[madalchemist.livejournal.com]

Yikes

Wonderfully appropriate icon though.

[mad-yeti.livejournal.com]

AWESOMELY wonderful icon.

Oh, and moving is good too. A crippled kitchen is a sad, sad thing.

[shadesofmauve]

Ain't it great, though?

Where are you now, and what are you up to? I feel out of the loop - tell all!