Without going into graphic detail, my son had a bathroom "issue". A pretty big issue. During much vigorous plunging, and making a terrible mess, I seem to have blown out a large portion of the wax seal between the toilet and the drain pipe. The reason I know this is because there was significant spill-over.. significant... that went down the outside of the drain pipe, pouring over everything underneath it in the basement. I'll give you one guess what lies directly underneath the drain.

That's right... my bench.

Use your imagination. I promise you that it's worse than you can come up with.

The only positive note is that after much effort, I was finally able to amuse myself with all possible wise-elbow remarks... "Boy, what a crappy workstation".. "This is really crappy cork".... "Talk about crappy thread"... "This is one crappy crappie rod"... tools, optivisor, radio, CD's, chair, ... (I have a great imagination... I've went through them all)

That gap in your buttwrap or that slight wave in your finish? Remember my motto... "Things are never so bad that they can't get worse".

Happy weekend to those of you who will be building rods with Rodmaker opened to page 10.... Me? I'll be cueing up my "This Old House" videos...

Well I guess it bring new meaning to the Saying "Stuff happens" . Same type of thing happened while I was stationed in New York expept I was lucky and my table was on the OTHER end of the room and clean up was much easier. At least you dont have a Crappy attitude.(couldnt pass it up.)

hahaha Doc!

I've learned long ago to laugh at my misfortunes. The only people who think that the Luck of The Irish is a good thing.. aren't Irish. I also have some pollock in me too, so you know how that goes.. LOL

Just remember flush before work
Good Wraps Bob

Good luck to you Mick!

Ones problems can seem pretty overwhelming until one sees someone else's disaster!
Thanks for making my problems much smaller!

Raymond Adams
Eventually, all things merge, and a river runs through it..



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Does this mean you'll be specializing in Crappie rods from now on?

Thanks for sharing your experience. Hopefully your work area will end up even better than before and smelling as sweet as a flower.

David

As long as the 'flower' isn't Skunk Cabbage. LOL. Ralph

If at first you don't succeed, go fishing, then try, try again.

Sorry to hear this happened to you Mick, does this mean someones gettin' a clumpy stinken crappie rod?(lol). Couldn't help it, Best wishes. Eddie

Rod, Reels and 18 wheels.

Remember eventualy good things come from miss fortune
Good Wraps Bob Exolination my ex wife was a bad miss fortune. Karen my wife of 7years was the best thing that ever happened to me, plus my 4 kids

This should make for some interesting "inlays" and and thread dye patterns popping up in Bobs photo gallery in the near future........LOL!!!!

Im glad you have a sense of humor....I tend to laugh at my misfortunes in life as well, but that one would have had me in the corner curled up in the fetal position....humming to myself with a blank stare.......

Well, ****.



Scott Kinney
The Longest Cast Fly Rods
[www.thelongestcast.com]

Are you trying to create a new MArbling method?

Oh man, that is crappy! Your right, I cannot imagine that situation. Sorry to here about this one.

When it was all heading for the workshop below, did "it" ever hit a large moving fan?

Mike

NERB that types with a bar of Ivory soap in his mouth.

Hey Mick,
You should probably do an article on your new version of "marbelizing." Bet Putter hasn't done that version before :)

and rocking......or rolling in the fetal position............
Hang in there Mick and you will(hopefully) come up on top smelling like a rose.
Chuck

Good grief, Mick. What a rotten experience that was. Lotsa luck getting everything back in order.

Bleach helps a lot with this type of thing.

In my area of town, there's a storm sewer tied into the actual sewer. This is against all codes, but the city won't fix it. During a BAD rainstorm, my basement drain line backed up into the basement, bringing everything that was in my line out to the main right back into my basement.

After cleaning that mess up once (over a foot deep), I installed a new drain (chiseled out the concrete, cut the drain line and installed this) with a threaded fitting in the bottom of the drain. There's a 2" plastic plug threaded into that at all times to fix that crappy experience.

Putter
Williston, ND

Just remember this... quote - "That which hits the fan, is not always evenly distributed!" My apologies for your pain - never had my rod building stuff downstairs but I have had our septic back up into the basement before - can't say I recommend it. Good luck with your repairs and clean up... Chuck Ungs

it could be a lot worse. i am in the insurance business. i had one client that went to work in the morning and came home to a flooded house from a bathroom sink upstairs where a feeder pipe had broken. over $200,000 damage. they hired their own contractor. turned out to be the contractor from @#$%&. they lived in a hotel for six months. you got away without too much damage.

You know the guy that invented those things was named Crapper? Hope things go better the the next few days Mick.