The squeaky wheel

This post falls under the heading, "The Squeaky Wheel Gets The Grease".  After we'd been in this house about 10 years, one of our toilets developed a leak.  By that time, Bob had stopped doing plumbing repairs, or any household repairs for that matter, so I called our plumber, Phil, and told him we didn't want a repair, we thought it was time to replace both units.  Phil's a great guy, period, and we trust him.  When Bob was so sick he couldn't stand to take a shower, I called Phil and asked him to purchase whatever handheld shower he thought was best.  He came over and installed it.  He's that kind of guy, you can trust him.

He recommended one of the new toilets by Flushmate, when you flush them, they go whoosh, and  they're super efficient.  We gave him the green light, he did the work, and we were happy.  If a toilet can make you happy, these new units filled the bill.

About a year ago, the "toilet people" sent us a recall notice on both our toilets.  Now, it's not like a recall on your car, you can't take it to the dealership and have them take care of it.  No, this is toilets, and they're installed in the house.  I logged on to their website and arranged for the new items to be shipped to Casa Prytz.  When the small boxes arrived, I called Phil.  He came and installed the replacement parts.

After that, we were not happy campers.  Not at all.  We were even discussing purchasing replacement units, that's how unhappy we were.

This is what was wrong.  The toilets were no longer efficient, often they had to be reflushed.  Oh, bother.  Plus, the one in the Master Bath ran.  That's right, ran.  After flushing, 98% of the time you had to "stand-by" to see if you needed to jiggle the handle.  This was all very unacceptable.

Yesterday I decided, what the heck, I'm gonna email these toilet makers and tell them how very unhappy we were.  I figured the worse that could happen would be we'd be ignored and proceed to call Phil and get these suckers replaced.  Enough is enough.

This morning I got a call from the Flushmate company, the customer service person said they were sorry we were having these problems and they were going to send "two new units" to us.  We should have them in about 4 days.  Then we can call Phil.

This is my 3rd post this month, I'm one behind, but I'll catch up.  During the month I'll post on different subjects on my various blogs.  Keeping it' real for November NaBloPsMo.

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Maymo the lemon Beagle

This is so funny.  What a "not good", good dog.

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Tuesday humor

I seldom post email jokes.  I have 2 male cousins who are prolific senders of humor.  This one is from Crazy Cousin Wayne in Washington.

FOR ALL THE LADIES I KNOW THAT DRIVE ALONE!

 I had a flat tire on I-5 yesterday ; so, I pulled over, got out of the car and opened my trunk.

 I took out my cardboard men, unfolded them and stood them at the rear of my car facing oncoming traffic. They look so lifelike you wouldn't believe it!

 Just as I had hoped, cars started slowing down looking at the men which made it much safer for me to work on the side of the road. People honked and waved, and it wasn't long before a police car pulled up behind me.

He wanted to know what the heck I was doing so I calmly explained that I was changing my flat. He told me he could see that, but demanded to know what the heck my cardboard men were doing standing at the rear of my car. I couldn't believe he didn't know!

So I told him ... Well, I explained to the angry Policeman ... They're my Emergency Flashers!!!!



I go to court in January. (Damn Police. No sense of humor.)

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A little humor to lighten the stress

HOW TO BE A GRACIOUS BITCH

Jennifer's wedding day was fast approaching.
Nothing could dampen her excitement - not even her parent's nasty divorce.

Her mother had found the PERFECT dress to wear, and would be the best-dressed mother-of-the-bride ever!
A week later, Jennifer was horrified to learn that her father's new, young wife had bought the exact same dress as her mother!
Jennifer asked her father's new young wife to exchange it, but she refused.
"Absolutely not! I look like a million bucks in this dress, and I'm wearing it," she replied.


Jennifer told her mother who graciously said, ''Never mind sweetheart. I'll get another dress.
After all, it's your special day.''
A few days later, they went shopping, and did find another gorgeous dress for her mother.
When they stopped for lunch, Jennifer asked her mother, ''Aren't you going to return the other dress?
You really don't have another occasion where you could wear it."


Her mother just smiled and replied, ''Of course I do, dear.....I'm wearing it to the rehearsal dinner the night BEFORE the wedding.''

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Flies - Humor

I re-discovered this short list of things you should know about flies; I don't remember where I first saw it, but the doc. was saved to my computer in July of '08.  If you recognize the source, let me know and I'll give proper credit.

1. Flies rarely carry handbags. This has nothing to do with their weight or the fact they could get in the way of their wings, but everything to do with the fact that flies get paid in shamrocks which they clip to their toes with hair slides, therefore rendering any handbag/purse type object useless, and a waste of shamrocks.

2. Flies can only eat one piece of sweetcorn a year, or else they implode.

3. Flies are a little bit scared of the actor Robert Downey Junior. It is something to do with his eyebrows.

4. Flies do not believe in goats. If they see a goat they pretend they haven’t as other flies will think they are mad and avoid them.

source

5. Flies can only count to seven and have to say the word ‘periscope’ after each number.

6. Flies also have an unexplained passion for anything by Tom Jones but can’t stand Val Doonican

7.Flies also cannot play hopscotch. It’s against their religion.

8. Flies are also horrible spellers, needing to google almost everything they have to spell. this doesn’t really work, as google has no idea what ‘ffudsiaop’ is, so it says ‘did you mean ‘ffudsiag’?’ which, of course, they never do.

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Thanks to Chaletgirl for the head up!

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Broken nose humor

My nose was broken on 3 separate occasions.  That's a lot for a non-athlete, don't you think.  The first time, I was pre-school age, my Mom was in the hospital, and I was staying with family friends, the Saddlers, so Dad could work and visit Mom.  The Saddlers had two girls, close to my age and we were playing on park benches and I fell, flat on my face, and broke my little nose.

Years later, I was married, Bob and I were living in Downey, close to North American Aviation where he worked, building the space shuttle that went to the moon.  This was early days in our marriage and we were horsing around (wrestling) and he threw me, up, and off of him, into a wall, and my nose broke.  That's #2.

The next time was years later, again.  We'd bought our home in Long Beach, I was in my late 30's.  I'd woken before daylight and was walking down the hall toward the kitchen, and fell, flat on my face, for broken nose #3.  Why did I fall?  One of our wonderful dogs, Seger, a black German Shepard was laying in the hall, and it was dark and I hadn't turned on a light.  I fell so suddenly, I didn't even put my hands out to brace myself.

I waited until I was 61, to have my nose straighten out.  I didn't have a nose-job, a rhinoplasty, because most of the damage was on the inside.  The surgery was called a septoplasty.  Now, here's the humor - because of the surgery and healing time I had to take 2 weeks off from work and from teaching Tai Chi, so everyone knew I'd had nose surgery.  When I returned to Tai Chi, two of my students, came up to me and told me how great my "new nose" looked.  I was pretty surprised and told them that they were looking at my old nose, because nothing had changed on the outside.  Later, I guessed that these particular students might have been familiar with cosmetic surgery.  Whatever floats your boat!

This post is in response to the I am post, today.  I was featured two days ago.

P.S.  My nose is still a tad crooked on the outside, that's just me.

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The Rabbits know

From Disapproving Rabbits, Rabbits Bites:

Image of the Day: Lost in Translation

From the Shelf Awareness newsletter, today:

Our new favorite bookstore name ever! This picture of a Hong Kong bookstore has circulated lately on the Internet with a range of comments, including:

Looking for the right book store? This ain't it.

If you can't find the book you want, you're probably shopping at the . . . (LISNews: Librarian and Information Science News)

THE BOOKS IN THERE MUST BE FOOKHING FABULOUS! (darklochnagar blog)