In a blog posted only
five days ago, I wrote about my boiler and my hot tub both giving up the ghost
within a two-day period. “What’s the
third thing?” my friend, Kevin, asked when I told him about those.
Everyone recognizes that
things fail in groups of three.
On Sunday, while at my
cabin collecting some firewood, I thought about the “third thing” as I
pull-started my chain saw. That girl
entertained the very same thought as she watched me struggling to bring the saw
engine to life. Fortunately, the saw eventually
sputtered to life and ran flawlessly for the entire day.
Yesterday, the third
thing finally broke. Another
water-related contrivance failed spectacularly.
As that girl and I sat
drinking coffee, we heard the water softening system kick on in the laundry
room. During one stage of the process,
the system banged loudly and then sounded like it was pumping marbles against a
snare drum. “Geez, that’s quite a
racket,” that girl noted.
“Yeah,” I replied, “it
has always been loud like that...at least since I upgraded the system about
eight years ago. Not sure what the deal
is.”
“That would be scary in
the middle of the night.”
“I know. My cats plastered themselves against the door
the first time they heard it.”
After a couple more sips
of her coffee—filled with a mix of curiosity and suspicion—that girl headed to
the laundry room. She yelped the second
she entered the room. “Mitch, you need
to get in here right away. Water is
squirting everywhere!”
The third thing turned
out to be a broken water line on the water softening system and an indoor flood.
--Mitchell
Hegman
What comes after the third thing?
ReplyDeleteI hope an era of calm!
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