Brother Doug,
Your profession has come in pretty handy for some of our family members. So I’m frustrated that when I need your services, I’m 2300 miles away!
See, I have a pipe that’s leaking. It’s leaking badly. The good part is that it’s leaking into a drainage area for my sump pump. So it’s nothing I have to clean up or anything, but it’s not something that will ever get better on its own.
And oh man, what a pain to change it. It goes down into the bottom of the hole thingy where water drains to be pumped out, then it goes up and out into the ground or something. What a pain. I’m sure it would be real easy for you though.
Tell you what. Come out and fix it for me and my wife will make you all the rhubarb pie you can eat! It’s really good, she made a couple rhubarb pies a few weeks ago and I ate the vast majority of them. So I know what I’m talking about.
Whaddaya say? It’s all wrapped up with tape, just waiting for you.
10 Responses
June 25th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Let’s make this a petition! Here we go:
Signed,
Anonymous Coward
June 25th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Rhubarb pie?!?!?!?!?!?! Is that all you’d give him?????? From the sound of it he’d at least deserve a four course meal!!!!
Becky
June 25th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Dear Tom, You know that you are my favorite younger brother and have always been.I would be very excited to fix your leaking pipe thingy if you would help me out with my computer stuffy! But due to the size of our family and the many “pipe thingys” that seem to always go unfinished, [asked jean about pipes in laundry room] im afraid you’ll have to find a plumber friend in neighberhood. It seems to work quite well in utopia. I get quite excited when a phone call comes to home phone and its actually for me and i think that a friend is just calling to chat. But sadly, usually before the initial answer to “how you doin?” is wistfully given, the conversation turns to something like,hey would you be interested in helping me fix…… Dr. Tom and nurse Jewel, what should i do? signed, busy plumber in utopia. P.S. happy anniversary
June 26th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Happy Anniversary?
That’s what he said, alright.
So, those are my wishes to you as well…all the way from Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico.
June 27th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Hey Plumber Brother, What you should consider is moving faaaaaarrrrrr away… Like out of the country so they would quit calling you to fix the mess they don’t want too…
Tom, If ya don’t want a swimming pool or anything, just wrap a roll or two of duct tape around it really tight…My ancient grandma used to use rolls and ROLLS of that stuff per week…She was probably the one who kept the company in business…LOL…It stayed duct taped for at least 5 or 6 years… It’s GUARENTEED to work :)Just Jokin’…
Becky
June 28th, 2008 at 12:14 am
Maybe you should upgrade to Gorilla Tape. :-)
June 28th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
We are indeed blessed to have our brother Doug in the valuable plumbing business. I have benefited from his expertise many times, and he has always been very prompt(of course I am his favorite sister)and professional to deal with issues that might have been somehwat embarrassing and downright difficult to explain to a stranger. Water flowing through the kitchen ceiling lights at 9 PM Saturday night when your 7 year old is taking a bath up above the kitchen? Doug comes by on his way home from the Beaver game and not only solves this mystery, but shares a wonderful time of fellowship over oreos and milk before he departs. This is one of my many fond memories of Doug. I am forever indebted to Doug for all his help. Not only is he an awesome plumber, he is very cute and fun to be with. His touching letter of response to you inspired me to call him just to chat and see how he’s doing. (He sounded excellent) He said he would mark his log book that my call was a chat, not a request. Good luck, Brother Tom!!!
June 30th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Doug stopped by our house Sat morning to drop off Duane ( who is a fine outstanding young man -like his father- and worked very hard on a hot day)and we sat in the shade and drank coffee. It wasn’t until after he left that I remembered I had a “small project” that he’s worked on before, but alas he was already on his way to help someone else, so my project is still waiting – just adding a filter in our camper trailer. However we did joke and laugh about escapades he’s made under our house over the years::)
Good luck with the leak, I’ve learned they don’t heal themselves.
Your older brother,
Galen
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:25 pm
my, my, usually only upon expiration does one receive such glowing accolades! These comments remind of political pandering that seems to be so rampant by the far left. Tom, perhaps its time for a new post. You’re not far from chicago, how bout that Barack ——- Obama fella?(sorry ,not allowed to use his middle name.)anonymous in a western state
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:27 pm
P.S. pay no attention to the name on the last comment, its made up.