"Nonny" wrote in message
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We all have embarrassing moments, and I've certainly had my share. I had
surgery on my nose a week back, and cannot bend at the waist or pick
anything up for a couple weeks. That's harder to comply with than you'd
think, but I do my best. The other day, I was at the kitchen sink and
noticed a large puddle of water by the dishwasher. As I was rinsing
dishes, it grew even larger. Our sink faucet is one of the types with the
pull-our head, rather than one with a separate dish rinsing hose.

I shut everything down and asked a family member to look under the sink
for the leak: presumably in the drain line or disposal attachment. She
cleaned everything out, mopped up the base, toweled the surface dry and
used a flashlight to try locating the leak. We ran water and the flood
returned. The closest she could tell me was that it originated somewhere
"back and up high," and appeared only when we were running the faucet.
Being a pessimist and having a sore nose anyway, I decided to just leave
it for the next morning.

In the meantime, my neighbor came by to see how I was doing and I griped
to him about the sink leaking. I told him I was betting that the flex
hose between the faucet and pull-out head was broken and he agreed with
the diagnosis. We even made plans to rip the whole darned thing out the
next morning and to just slap in a new faucet. THEN, the smart-a** pulled
the wand out a few inches and told me to turn on the water. It sprayed
everywhere.

Unlike a normal run of bad luck, all that had happened was the threaded
connection between the hose and the faucet head was loose. I couple turns
by hand, followed by a tweaking with pliers had the whole mess fixed in a
few minutes, with no big project the next day. That kind of good luck
NEVER happens. . . and when it did, it had to happen in front of my best
friend and neighbor, who is now telling anyone who'll listen how he had to
show me how to find a leak.

--
Nonny
On most days,
it's just not worth
the effort of chewing
through the restraints..

I have more stories than there are space here to cite situations where the
obvious was the culprit, and a two second common sense fix saved the day.
But I DID learn from those moments, and now eliminate the obvious first. To
me, it's really a conceit issue. I want it to be something deep and
mysterious for me to solve. Anyone can tighten a nut.

Steve

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A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.