In article ,
Bob Eager wrote:
On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 10:46:03 +0100, Dan S. MacAbre wrote:

ss wrote:
In the final stages of completing the bathroom refurbishment. So
connect the tap and the waste drain, connected the two flexi hoses to
the tap and then just the hot to the incoming pipe, thought to test the
tap was ok ...turns it on and water starts ****in out the cold water
flexi hose,
as the water was sputing out the tap I didnt realise it was going all
over the floor from the cold unattached flexi hose.

Ah well we live and learn.

Has anyone else removed the trap from a sink, and then washed their
hands in it? No? Only me then...

Rite of passage, that one.

and it figures in Alan Aykebourn's "Absurd Person Singular"

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