That Drain Was a Real Strain on My Brain! I was on my annual fishing trip with the guys having a great time drinking a few brewskies after catching some nice big suckers, when my cell phone rings. I picked up the call and on the other end is my wife who frantically tells me to come home right away because the basement is flooded. Luckily, I was on my first beer and was still quite sober enough to be able to drive home. Still, I was rather angry that the basement was flooded and that I had to cut my fishing trip short. I am thinking to myself, why is the basement flooded when I just had the foundation cracks repaired last month? Anyways, by the time I got home it was three o?clock in the morning and my wife was waiting up for me. Before going down to the basement, I decided to put on my green hip waders that I had used on the fishing trip. My wife laughed at me and said I looked like a big fat bullfrog! Well, let her amuse herself, I have no time to make a fashion statement at that time of the morning! I was worried about what I disaster I would find waiting for me in the basement. After all, the basement was my "man cave" where me and the guys would watch hockey games and football games on my big screen TV while we ate pizza and chicken wings. When I got down there I was horrified to find about a foot of water there. Well the carpet was certainly ruined but luckily my big screen TV was okay since it was on a nice high stand. I figured the floor drain must be backed up because the water was not draining. So I found a website for "DrainCom" on the internet. They advertised that they were a basement company which is just what I needed. The ad also mentioned that they could fix a backed up drain and that they had 24 hour emergency service. They also mentioned that they repaired foundation cracks. Perhaps I should have called DrainCom to do that job for me also! Anyways, I knew I needed an expert plumber from DrainCom to fix my backed up floor drain. So I called DrainCom and they said they would send somebody right away. I decided to wait for them on the front porch while I had a smoke. I waited in anticipation for a truck with DrainCom written on the side. A short while later, I was so happy to see a DrainCom truck pull up in my driveway! The first thing the plumber does when we get to the basement is he turns off the garden hose connected to the laundry tub faucet that was spewing out water. That was amazing, like some kind of psychic big fish he finds the source of the water! Next he pumps out the water. When all the water is gone, he takes the lid off of the basement drain and starts fishing in there with some sort of weird contraption that only plumbers use. Surprise! Surprise! He fishes out all these plastic figurines of cartoon villains. First, out comes Dr. Evil followed by Mr. Destructo, The Mean Green Man, Mr. Wackadoodle, The Axe Man, The Death Twins and on and on it went! I knew all their names because my seven year old son Jamie plays with them. Finally, the plumber says everything is "all clear" and that he would send me the bill. Heck, I had my fishing rod out in the car I could have fished out the evil doers myself and would have saved me some cash! The next morning my wife and I asked Jamie if he had turned on the garden hose and took off the drain lid and shoved all those evil villains down the basement drain. He said that he wanted to drown all the evil people and send them down to the "underworld" as he called it because they do evil things and hurt people. My wife and I did not know whether to laugh or cry! My son realized the difference between good and evil so how could I punish him for that? I said, "That?s right Jamie good should win out over evil but the next time you want to do something like that call daddy and we will fight all the evil doers together!" With that I went into a karate stance and let out a big war cry, "Ahhhhhhhhhh!" We all laughed hysterically! DrainCom solved my basement drain problem and all was well again! Sean
Posted on: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 04:40:50 +0000
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