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As a guy who is usually in hot water, which I am application as an alibi for all my wrinkles, I afresh begin myself in the abnormal bearings of actuality in hot baptize because there was no hot water.
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Actually, there was hot water, but it larboard me algid because it was decrepit out of the faucet in an admiral bathroom. To anticipate the American agnate of Chinese baptize ache from befitting me alive at night and active me alike crazier than I already am, I had to accessible the vanity aperture and stick my abandoned arch beneath the sink, an breadth so baby that a Chihuahua would accept acquainted claustrophobic, so I could about-face off the hot water.
When I capital to shave, I had to about-face the process. Then I antipodal it afresh so the baptize bill wouldn't battling the gross civic artefact of Finland.
This went on for months. Finally, at the able advancement of my wife, Sue, who doesn't alike shave, I was faced with two choices: fix the botheration or abound a beard.
Because I didn't appetite to attending like Presidents Abraham Lincoln and James A. Garfield, both of whom were attempt to death, I absitively to go with Choice No. 1.
This basic disassembling the faucet so I could change the washer. Inasmuch as I am the atomic accessible man in America, visions of Niagara Falls abounding my brain, which has baptize on it anyway.
I approved the astute admonition of Frank and Jerry, two ace aliment guys at work.
"Make sure," Frank advised, "that you about-face off the baptize or you'll accept an calm pond pool."
"Maybe," Jerry added, "you should abrasion a bathing suit."
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"How do I get the cap off the hot-water spigot?" I asked.
"Use a screwdriver," Frank answered.
"You beggarly vodka and orange juice?" I wondered.
"Whatever works," Jerry said.
I additionally talked with Gary, a accomplished aide who acclimated to address a home-improvement column. He printed out instructions with an analogy of the sink's parts, including the handle seat, the gasket and, of course, the washer. The accomplished affair looked like the action affairs for the aggression of Normandy.
"There's a apparatus for demography the faucet apart," Gary said.
"Yes," I replied. "It's alleged a jackhammer. All I appetite to do is change the washer. Do I accept to buy a new house?"
"Go on YouTube," Gary said, "and watch a video. It will appearance you how to do it."
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So I did. The two-minute video, "How to Replace a Washer in a Leaky Faucet for Dummies," will never win an Oscar, but it was acutely aimed at me. And it was appealing instructive.
I acclimated my smartphone, which has a impaired owner, to booty a account of the faucet. Then I went to Home Depot for added assistance.
I got it from Charlie, who is so abreast that he coaches new recruits at the store. He assured me that I am not as amateur as I anticipate I am.
"My uncle was worse," Charlie said. "He was a ablaze advocate who became a judge, but he couldn't change a ablaze bulb. He eventually went blind, which didn't help."
Charlie abreast me that my faucet doesn't accept washers.
"You accept to abolish the nut," he said.
"That would be me," I countered.
"And," Charlie continued, "replace the cartridge."
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"Do I accept to use dynamite?" I asked.
"No," Charlie said. "A bend will do. But about-face off the baptize first."
"Even I apperceive that," I said.
I bought a backup cartridge, went home, angry off the baptize beneath the bath bore and, abundant to my admiration (and Sue's), anchored the problem.
"Nice job," Sue said. "And we didn't alike accept to alarm a plumber."
Unfortunately, now something's amiss with the kitchen faucet. Looks like I'm in hot baptize again.
Stamford Advocate amusement columnist Jerry Zezima is the columnist of "Leave It to Boomer" and "The Abandoned Nest Chronicles." Visit his blog at www.jerryzezima.blogspot.com. Email: JerryZ111@optonline.net.
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