I’m having a bit of a sucky day today. I woke up early this morning to get ready for a thing that Mr Hammond was organising, stuck on the washing machine and went back to bed. Forty minutes later, I register that the noise it’s making seems weirder than normal, I step out of bed straight into half an inch of water. The washing machine has been spurting out fluid with total abandon out of some flange I can’t even find. As a result the flat’s completely drenched, with the bedroom, hallway, kitchen and bathroom particularly saturated. After a day of mopping up with every vaguely absorbent thing in the house and unhelpful phone calls with my landlords (and enormous trips to the launderette to wash and dry things) I’ve managed to find a small damp-free patch in the sitting room where I’ll be sleeping this evening (and probably tomorrow evening too). Pretty much every other room is full of drying things or is still still completely sodden through. It’s semi-official – everything sucks.
On the upside, I’m being forced to sort out a lot of the crap in my flat – if only so I can find a relatively elevated clear place to sleep. And because I’m forced to stay at home as I’ve got to have the windows open to have any chance of the place drying out at all, I’ve been able to continue my slow plod through the excellent Learn to Program (with Ruby) by Chris Pine. It’s a bloody stunning bit of work and a great break from the horror of trying to scrape up another few pints of washing machine overflow with an old towel or rug from a cupboard.
9 replies on “In which everything gets wet…”
Yikes! Man, I completely understand that type of frustration – especially when you’ve already got plans. As you mentioned, at least you get to sort out and purge stuff. It’s good to do that once in a while (though under dryer conditions).
Yikes! Man, I completely understand that type of frustration – especially when you’ve already got plans. As you mentioned, at least you get to sort out and purge stuff. It’s good to do that once in a while (though under drier conditions).
Blimey; bad luck. That sounds like a total pain in the proverbials. Hope you didn’t have any expensive carpet :os …
Oh, well. At least you’re learning Ruby. Nothing can be bad when you’re learning Ruby … :o)
Oh gawd! Nothing worse than getting flooded. We had a burst pipe once and it was a nightmare! What about your Xbox, did that get wet?
Nope – pretty much nothing got damaged which is a bit of a miracle, except most of my clothes got sodden and the carpet’s drenched.
Sorry to hear that – try and hire one of the wet vacuum cleaners – will suck water out of carpet and make it will try really quick.
That quite definitely does not sound like fun. 🙁
On the other hand, at least it was just water, and not anything nastier, so at least it will dry. Friend of mine got flooded a few years back – lost all their furniture, all books by authors with names beginning with A – E, and ended up with a dead cow in the back garden. And didn’t have insurance.
my xbox fell in my fish tank DA@#it what now, just go to walmart and buy another and put the old on in the box and take it back and get my money , i would rathre fix it but cant find o9ut how BYe
363476: Hey, does anyone know where I can find a list of gas stations with low prices in my area?