First, thank you to J and crew for watching my two kids today. In a day that started with a film project, I’ve been kinda busy. While eating lunch, a pipe under the sink burst. It is now fixed (as far as I can tell…whenever I make repairs I hold my breath until I forget about it).
I propose a hypothesis: the number of trips to Home Depot will be directly proportional to the importance of the repair. After the third visit to Home Depot within a two hour span, I realized that it was a good thing to get the sink fixed.
Water is flowing freely, flowing like…water, I guess.
A neighborly gent commented, “Ah. The joys of home ownership.” I muttered under my breath a less than joyous response. Tonight, though, we sat down to watch Kit Kittredge (keep in mind the demographics of my house) and people were losing their homes to foreclosure.
In a time where people are struggling and some losing their houses, I’m thankful for what I’ve been given.
Now to shower and get the iron shavings out of my hair and eyes.
Addition: This is the first time where I’ve been helped by a sales assistant at Home Depot. I was helped three separate times, representing the three trips. I think it’s my Amish beard. I’m no longer a suspected thief but now a reputable barn raiser.
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In our experience the number of trips to Home Depot is inversely proportional to the time you thought the repair was going to take, and contributes directly to the time the project was supposed to take being increased by a factor of ten. However, your hypothesis may also be accurate.
Kit Kittredge has a great closing line. Trouble is I was able to predict it, with 100% accuracy, before it was actually spoken in the movie. The other adult in my Kit-viewing group got a big laugh out of that.
And you did it all without my help. Yeah Brian!
The number of trips to Home Depot can also be a measure of your success at the task. For a household repair of that nature, three trips is not doing to bad!
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