You may be wondering where such a place exists. Of course, I am talking about right here in Petroville.
Last night, we were supposed to attend a swanky retirement dinner for some old guy I’d never laid eyes on. It was truly the last thing I wanted to do on a school night especially with my upper lip looking like a dot to dot challenge. However, since I am rarely the good corporate wife, I was prepared to go and hate it.
All day, my husband and I played phone tag and tried to conjure up a decent reason to duck out. We got one - two actually- in the form of an emergency.
Emergency #1 was called in to my husband from the county jail. Our good friend used his one phone call to ask my husband to bail him out of the slammer. I kid you not. I won’t go into our friend’s private and humiliating personal details here but let’s just say he is now homeless and broken hearted. He will be staying with us until we can mend him properly and/or he pays us back the bond on his ass.
Emergency #2 was called up to me from the well water pump repair man. “Ma’am, did you know that your UV light is out down here?” Of course not. I had no idea on earth what he was talking about but it boils down to us having bacteria in our water supply. Oh, and our well reservoir tank has sprung a pretty big leak too. So, while we have no water at the moment, what we do have- if consumed- could slay you.
Ahhhh…the joys of rural living. Fret not. It shall soon be remedied. Although currently everyone’s tummy hurts because we’ve been poisoned by the thought of possible contamination, the water guys are busy like bees and shortly our house will smell like an indoor pool. They tell me that’s a good thing. The water has to be chlorinated in order to kill the bacteria. Yum.
It’s always crazy around this place, I tell you. Sometimes I think I should write it all down.
Heh.
If you could give a dramatic title to describe the goings-on in your sweet abode right now,
what would it be? Yes, please wow me.
Only YOU MommaK…..Only YOU!!
I really don’t get the whole water thing??
OMG, well at least you didn’t have to go to the party!
I’m sorry, I’m trying to be optimistic here! Good luck with your friend and the water supply. I hope both are resolved very shortly.
Sounds like the party would have been less painful than all that!!
Good luck with the unexpected guests!! At least the bacteria will be leaving soon…
These emergencies got us out of the lame dinner but we still have the costume ball to go to tomorrow night. Hopefully my lip will regenerate by then!! :zombie:
Boy do you know how to have fun over there in Petroville!
OH my! Sounds like an…umm…eventful day! I’m sorry to hear about your friend
I hope his life works itself out positive! I have to tell ya though..all I could think about after reading that he was going to stay with you for a while was the movie preview for ‘You, Me and Dupree’. I haven’t seen the movie….but thought made me giggle. AS for the water….that is awful! I hope it’s all taken care of soon!
A friend in jail. We have had a similar situation, which makes you wonder when stuff like that does stop. I don’t ever remember my parents having to go down to the jailhouse for anyone. HA!
That doesn’t sound like much fun. Let’s see, our house would be:
Where the Laundry Overwhelms You and the Shower Still isn’t Done.
“If it pees on my fence one more time I shall install an invisible electric barrier and hope for the worst.”
or
“Suburbia Safe Haven turns White Trash Trailer Park in 2 years or less.”
I’d rather have crappy water, at least it can be cleansed.
“Where the children whine and the mommy’s throat is sore and the daddy is about to leave on big trip to ailing mother.”
“Where the dog keeps digging holes and throwing dirt onto the patio.”
“Where the global warming freeze has possibly killed our citrus trees.
“Where I want to sleep in.”
Are we having fun yet?
And Baby Makes Four. :o
The Second Annual Laid Off Husband Drives Wife Crazy Celebration
or
Son Forgets to Feed Guinea Pig, Mother Forgets to Feed Son
or
Why Did I Tell My Daughter She Could Play Hockey?!?!
The Prisoners Have Control of the Building!
She has plunged headlong into the Adkins plan yet spent a small fortune on food today.
“Casa no sueno”
I am on my third day of not enough sleep.
Today I was awakened to the sound of a police bullhorn. At least it was not in my immediate little neighborhood, it was a few blocks over. It’s just, that stuff doesn’t happen round here, so it’s weird to me.
I used to have a well, yep every now and then you have to dump a few bottles of bleach down it. I was actually drinking it and I was fine, but then I started getting bottled water delivered.
I didn’t have a reserve tank though. If I left a hose on all night or something, no water in the morning.
“How To Not Die When You Fall Off A Big, Unstable Stack Of Stuff In Order To Change The Chirping Smoke Detector Batteries”
Or Possibly
“The House Where Mommy Goes Mad Due To A WHOLE WEEK of Snow Days”
Those are my top 2, anyway.
There are more. LOTS more.
It has occured to me to write an advice column since retiring as a therapist. The first column would be called “The Top Ten Reasons You Should Not Bail Your Husband’s Friend Out of a Bad Domestic Situation.”
Drink up, Momma K. And I don’t mean water.
Well, that’s a good way to get out of dinner… Couldn’t you think of anything else??? Something a little less dramatic??
Do send pix of the costumes….
xo
LBC
My dramatic title would be from a Joni Mitchell song - I wish I had a river I could skate away on….
Been there with the water - we also have our own water well. Just don’t wash anything that can’t be bleached for a few loads!!
Hmm..mine would be “The day the water froze up and the field tiles clogged while the cows were out of the fence and the septic tank, clogged with Charmin, refused to work and my seventeen year old called me from her cellphone and said “This cop wants to talk to you Mom.”
Just like I knew, you are a good friend and they’re hard to find.
Keep the faith.
yikes!!!
at least no one was in emergency.
my house today, “the drama queen is home”
I am sure you did not want out of the dinner at the expense of those two things. I hope you get your water cleaned up and back on in short order.
Hugssssssssss
we’ve got one of those UV light things. and they just called us for our annual service… I guess we’d better do it, huh? rural… wouldn’t have it any other way!!