First-World Problems...

Some of you will recognize that plumbing fixture. Others will be mopping up the mess after your washing machine feed lines ruptured.

Or...you know...not.

I don't know how often feed lines rupture. I have stainless steel lines, and I can't imagine that robust water lines such as those fail very often, but the conventional wisdom is to turn off the water when you are away.

Okay. I do that. Faithfully!

So I have saved my home from presumably countless floods! I feel so virtuous!

But I also faithfully forget to turn the water back on, so the first load of laundry after a trip is always a clown show.

"The washing machine is broken!"

And even better, when one of the brats comes to the house when we are gone and wants to do laundry, the phone calls are reminiscent of an Abbott And Costello sketch.

"The washing machine is broken!"

No it isn't. The water is turned off."

"How do I turn it back on?"

"Just flip the lever behind the machine."

"Where?"

"On the wall behind the machine."

"I don't see it."

"It's got two steel water lines running from it!"

"All I see is one big tube!"

"That's the dryer. Please call your college. I want a refund."

posted by CBD at 02:00 PM

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