Hi there
I guess you're wondering if plumbers and public holidays are a good match? Aw, go on, you were wondering that, weren't you?
Well, I can enlighten you.
No. They're not a good match.
On the day after New Year's Day, a public holiday here in New Zealand, I ran the bath water. Ah, yes, after an exhaustive power walk, there's nothing as wonderful - ahhh, yessss bliss - as a deep warm bubble bath.
But ... The handle of the tap came off in my hand as I turned it on. Boiling hot water gushed into the bath from the neck of the tap. What-?!!!
I couldn't fit the handle back into place. I pulled out the bath plug, and rushed to call a plumber.
I tried seven plumbers, each one - in screaming letters in The Yellow Pages - promised to fix my problem "24 hours a day, seven days a week" .
All seven plumbers were on holiday. The wild hot waterfall of a hot tap was still running....
Thank goodness for a neighbour with a wrench.
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