The Snake Won

            Yesterday was rot with plumbing problems. The mainline was backed up and it wasn’t pretty. A plumber showed up, but he didn’t have any luck unclogging it. He was quick to assume that the pipes were filled with roots and that they needed to be replaced. He said it would be expensive to fix unless I did the digging to save money. He was a problem solver and I appreciated that. The plumber had another call. He took off, but he said he’d come back later in the day. He gave me the plan of attack, which I quickly forgot.

            I started digging, but after an hour of digging, I realized that I didn’t want to be the digger, so I stopped and hashed out an idea that made more sense to me. I figured before we went crazy replacing pipes we should try once more to snake the pipes from a different access point. That’s what we did and after numerous attempts at snaking the pipes, the snake won.