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No Lifer
My mom and I came back from dinner and I thought I'd do a few things around the house before settling back down to nurse a sprite and relax to a movie or three. I'm full, I'm warm, and there's some good movies playing on AMC tonight so tonight's gonna be a decent one.
Um... nope.
Our kitchen sink leaks quite a bit so until we can replace the PVC, we threw a bucket under the trap. The only bucket we have is slightly too tall to just pull out so I've got to angle one side up (like I'm going to pour it out) to be able to slide it out from under the pea trap. No big deal. Well, it was a bit too full to remove, so I grabbed a measuring cup and started taking cups from the bucket and dumping them down the sink. The PVC has a small leak so it's not like all of it would just leak back into the bucket. When I could remove the bucket, I took it out to the utility room where we have a giant plastic/rubber utility sink. It used to be concrete, but we replaced it years ago with a newer, larger one.
I dumped the bucket down the sink and this water smelled like rotten ****** eggs, man. MAJOR rotten. Like, going to see my dinner again in 2 seconds kind of rotten. I went over to the tool cabinets and was looking through them for a face mask that I use when sanding or using harsh chemicals, but apparently I'm out.
The only thing I could find was a winter faucet bra thing. It looks like a giant boob. It's made out of styrofoam with rubber insulation around the edge. There's a 6" fine-threaded screw straight through it with a hook on the inside end. You're supposed to hook it around the end of a faucet outside the house and tighten down the butterfly nut on the outside so that it sits right up against the house, completely covering the faucet and keeping it and your pipes safe from mild winter freezes.
Anyway, I flung the nut around all the way to the base so the screw could sink all the way into the "boob" and stuck it to my face. I bit on the hook end of the screw so it would stay covering my nose and mouth so I could have both hands to work with.
By this time the stink from the poured-out water was so horrid that if I didn't find some cleaning agents and fast, I was going to be sick. I grabbed one of those ~40oz containers of lemon lysol and dumped about a cup into the sink with hot running water. The winter faucet bra was working PERFECTLY though so that's awesome. I grabbed one of the plastic bristled brushes used to scrub off mud that's dried on my boots and went to work scrubbing like a mad man.
I was concentrating on scrubbing down the sink so much that I momentarily forgot some basic laws of physics and the physical properties of water and strong cleaning agents such as lysol. I splashed a corner right next to my face sending water/lysol up into my face. It's a good thing I had my nose and mouth covered, but I was too stupid to close my eyes and got lysol in one eye. I quickly hit the cold water, grabbed the small length of hose comming off the faucet and started rinsing my eye immediately.
Lysol in the eye burns like a ******.
CLIFFS
Smelly water gets dumped down the sink.
I grab lysol to get rid of the smell and sanitize the sink.
I scrub sink with brush hard and fast, sending lysol into my eye.
I rinse immediately.
...
Profit.
Um... nope.
Our kitchen sink leaks quite a bit so until we can replace the PVC, we threw a bucket under the trap. The only bucket we have is slightly too tall to just pull out so I've got to angle one side up (like I'm going to pour it out) to be able to slide it out from under the pea trap. No big deal. Well, it was a bit too full to remove, so I grabbed a measuring cup and started taking cups from the bucket and dumping them down the sink. The PVC has a small leak so it's not like all of it would just leak back into the bucket. When I could remove the bucket, I took it out to the utility room where we have a giant plastic/rubber utility sink. It used to be concrete, but we replaced it years ago with a newer, larger one.
I dumped the bucket down the sink and this water smelled like rotten ****** eggs, man. MAJOR rotten. Like, going to see my dinner again in 2 seconds kind of rotten. I went over to the tool cabinets and was looking through them for a face mask that I use when sanding or using harsh chemicals, but apparently I'm out.
The only thing I could find was a winter faucet bra thing. It looks like a giant boob. It's made out of styrofoam with rubber insulation around the edge. There's a 6" fine-threaded screw straight through it with a hook on the inside end. You're supposed to hook it around the end of a faucet outside the house and tighten down the butterfly nut on the outside so that it sits right up against the house, completely covering the faucet and keeping it and your pipes safe from mild winter freezes.
Anyway, I flung the nut around all the way to the base so the screw could sink all the way into the "boob" and stuck it to my face. I bit on the hook end of the screw so it would stay covering my nose and mouth so I could have both hands to work with.
By this time the stink from the poured-out water was so horrid that if I didn't find some cleaning agents and fast, I was going to be sick. I grabbed one of those ~40oz containers of lemon lysol and dumped about a cup into the sink with hot running water. The winter faucet bra was working PERFECTLY though so that's awesome. I grabbed one of the plastic bristled brushes used to scrub off mud that's dried on my boots and went to work scrubbing like a mad man.
I was concentrating on scrubbing down the sink so much that I momentarily forgot some basic laws of physics and the physical properties of water and strong cleaning agents such as lysol. I splashed a corner right next to my face sending water/lysol up into my face. It's a good thing I had my nose and mouth covered, but I was too stupid to close my eyes and got lysol in one eye. I quickly hit the cold water, grabbed the small length of hose comming off the faucet and started rinsing my eye immediately.
Lysol in the eye burns like a ******.
CLIFFS
Smelly water gets dumped down the sink.
I grab lysol to get rid of the smell and sanitize the sink.
I scrub sink with brush hard and fast, sending lysol into my eye.
I rinse immediately.
...
Profit.
