May 29 2009
Under Sink Twister!
I spent the last two days playing contortionist under the sink cabinet, and the adjoining cabinet, changing out another genius’s wonderful plumbing disaster from many years ago.
Funny how a small thing, like changing out a faucet, can change from an hour long job to several days of hair pulling, name calling, and multiple trips to the hardware store! I bet his ears are still burning.
Trying to pry 6′6″ of body into two square foot of cabinet space and still be able to see what I was doing, and use my arms has left me with an appreciation for those poor souls that make their living as human pretzels on a regular basis. It has also left me with an intimate relationship with a heating pad and a bottle of Ibuprofen.
Laying half inside a cabinet raised off the floor with the other half sprawled across a concrete floor does wonders for the human body and I am thinking that five gallons of gas and a match might have been the best method of plumbing by far….
Thomas H. Forthe
