Knee Deep
Yesterday it was the beautiful, clean, northern stretch of the Hudson River that was up to my knees.
Today it is a river flowing from the blighted downstairs bathroom of our 100+ year old home. This morning as I moppped up what I can only imagine is cheese, I struggled to keep from adding a large puddle of my own vomit to the vile, wet mess. We have an intern from the theatre festival staying with us. I am gathering from her reaction to my apology that she would not be able to shower this morning, that she has never in her golden haired New Canaan, Connecticut existence had to cope with raw sewage.
I am teetering on the very edge as I sit here, unbathed, needing to pee, and desperate to scour, scald and steam away anything and everything I can but of course I am waiting for the plumber to show up...sometime before noon.
Stay tuned, I'm sure I'll be back to bitch about how expensive this shit is...get it...shit...cough, sputter, gag.
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posted by Amanda at
6:52 AM
13 Comments:
I think I just threw up in my mouth in sympathy for you. Keep me (uhh, I mean US in blogland, of course) posted.
June 25, 2007 7:49:00 AM PDT
Oh, no. Yep, I kinda gagged a little there too. That is nasty. So sorry.
But still: there's that beautiful photo for me to gaze at!
So at least it's all good for your readers.
Hope the plumber shows up ASAP.
June 25, 2007 8:14:00 AM PDT
Hope you get that shit cleaned up soon.
You poor thing!
June 25, 2007 8:30:00 AM PDT
Bleh! That happened to us a couple of years back and we soldiered on, cleaned up the house and everything - believe it or not - was okay again.
June 25, 2007 8:46:00 AM PDT
oh no! good luck with all that. yuck - that definitely is no fun. :(
June 25, 2007 8:53:00 AM PDT
Yucky, yucky, yucky!!! You get my vote for mom/wife of the year...I would be headed out the door and let me hubby deal with it all!
I hope everything turned out okay.
June 25, 2007 11:44:00 AM PDT
Great photo!
So sorry about the plumbing issue. I've had too much plumber experience lately. I just hope they showed up for you.
And, thank you for not including a picture of you second adventure in being knee deep!!!
June 25, 2007 1:48:00 PM PDT
Gag, oh gag. Sewage. gag. I'll send you a shower in a little bucket that's how bad sewage is.
June 25, 2007 7:01:00 PM PDT
That SUCKS! But I could still eat that little girl's face with a spoon - so delicious!
June 25, 2007 7:16:00 PM PDT
Oh no, no, no. That is awful, disgustingly awful. Sympathy is oozing from me right now.
GORGEOUS picture though.
June 25, 2007 9:04:00 PM PDT
well, that's pretty friggin gross, Amanda! Hope it gets straightened up soon
June 25, 2007 10:44:00 PM PDT
One day I saw my doctor getting into his car.
It was a Honda Accord.
Three months later, when my pipes burst, the plumber showed up in a Mercedes SUV.
I knew at that moment that while shit does stink, the smell of money is a great air freshener.
June 26, 2007 6:36:00 AM PDT
I didn't know there was a clean stretch of the river, hee hee! According to my friend, who grew up there.... I hope your flood gets cleaned up. When you think about the romance of living in an old house, I guess you don't think about stuff like this....
June 26, 2007 7:21:00 AM PDT
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