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I think I might be becoming handy. Or at least not totally useless when it comes to DIY/being a proper man. Still quite useless of course.
Yesterday I needed to pump up the tyres on the electric car as they'd all got a bit low. My inflation device operates via the cigarette lighter in the car and I was surprised to discover that the electric car doesn't have one of those in the front. I parked my other car next to the electric car to see if I could operate the pump from the cigarette lighter in there, but the cord was not long enough to reach any of the tyres.
I was going to give up, but then thought maybe they'd put the cigarette lighter thing in the boot. No good for lighting cigarettes (though I don't think they ever come with the burner anymore do they?) but might work for pumping up tyres. I was proven correct and managed to inflate three tyres to the required level. I am a genius. But whichever way I tried to do it the device didn't reach the front left tyre (I am now thinking I could maybe have made it if I went through the car itself, but I did try a version close to that and it didn't make it). So I pulled my other car alongside the electric car, even though the only way to do that was to block one half of the road and inflated the tyre that way as my hazard lights flashed and two cars had to go round. Good job I was doing this on a Sunday morning.
It felt good to solve the conundrum.
We'd noticed lots of water under the sink yesterday, though couldn't work out where exactly it was coming from. But today when I emptied the washing up bowl into the sink I saw that when the trap bit underneath was getting full it was sending water shooting out of its joints - lots of it - which it didn't do when the tap was just running normally. Obviously when it got full it couldn't cope. I presumed some seals had gone or something and Catie's first thought was how were we going to get a plumber before Christmas.
But I wondered if I could fix it. Or at least check to see what was wrong before giving a man £200 for doing nothing.
I really had no idea what I was doing (I had to google to find out what the trap was called). But I unscrewed the trap, with a basin underneath it and some water and gunk came out. And then I unscrewed the bit that connected the trap to the sink. That was a bit dirty too. So I cleaned everything up and poked a chopstick down the plug to dislodge all the detritus in there (not loads, but enough) and then tried to put it all back together again. That puzzle took me longer than it should have done because I forgot that one bit needed to attach to the sink. But I didn't try and clean the trap in the sink, forgetting that it would just come through (though Catie did clean one of the kids' waterbottles while I was working (had a basin down - it was fine). And eventually I worked out the simple 3D jigsaw and attached everything up and tightened all the screws nice and tight. And it seemed to work. At least for now. I have never felt more alive. Or more manly. If I could still achieve an erection I would have been rock hard. But I was rock hard inside my soul.
And so far so good. I don't have to experience the minor humiliation of a man coming over to clean and tighten my pipe.
I haven't put anything back in the undersink cupboard (and have left the washing up bowl in there) just in case though.
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