When it's 10:30PM, you rent an apartment, and the faucet in your sink refuses to turn off, you have three options:
1. Call the manager, wake her up, and make her really grumpy
2. Use the magic "turn off the water switch" under the sink and call her the next day
3. Get out all your tools
Take apart the faucet
Discover that the thing you were sure was the problem is not the problem
Find several other things that are working just fine
Discover that you have no idea because it's still not working
Use the magic "turn off the water switch" under the sink and call her the next day
Obviously the third option is the best, because that way when the maintenance guy shows up the next day, you can tell him what you learned is not the problem. Then he can do all the same things you did and come to the same conclusion before proceeding to take apart the sink piece by piece to find what the problem really is... your sink was installed in 1970. So to solve the problem he just gets a new faucet.
Hahahaha! That is exactly why you need a tool box with all sorts of fun things in it!
ReplyDelete