I am so unbelievably dead!!!

[Albertan22]

So I'm making up water today for a waterchange using my RO/DI unit and have a bit of a flood. Same old story you say, but stay tuned. I don't have room to permanently install my RO/DI unit anywhere so I typically set it on the bathroom counter, hook the input to the tap and direct the waste water down the drain.

Todays flood happened differently than any flood I've engineered yet. The wastewater hose managed to move itself out of the sink and onto the counter. Every time I walked by today, it looked like everything was fine (at least at a glance). No water was flowing on the floor, all appeared well.

When I noticed the hose out of the sink, I thought it must have just happened since there was no water on the floor. I opened the vanity up, and there was some water in the bottom of it. So I'm cleaning off everything down there and run to the basement to get towels, there's water everywhere. There's like 1-2 mm of water across half the basement floor, one of the ceiling tiles has caved in, two more look like they'll collapse any time. A shelving unit containing all of my tools is soaked from top to bottom, and it's a good 8 feet from where the bathroom is upstairs. As best I can figure, the water must have followed the outside of the drain pipe from the sink into the basement.

Here's the part where I'm really going to get killed, my wife (who is away at a conference) has been re-organizing the basement over the last week. She's got all her boxes of childhood stuff opened and spread across the entire floor of the basement, nearly all of it is water damaged.

She comes home tonight, and I have a lot of work to do. To top it all off, I've been argueing a bit about the value of keeping all that stuff with her over the past few days. I have a feeling this may be my last post before my untimely death...

[bignose]

Start packing! just kidding hopefully your wife is like mine and doesn't freak out. I flooded my neighbors at my old apartment with ~20G.
Good luck

[jorjef]

Wow that string of events will never be believable to your wife.... Aquarium world about to collide with wifes memory lane world.... a no win situation..lol Best to say little and accept all punishment without arguement... Or run like hell which I would do.

[Murminator]

Mom or Dad would be easier to explain to than a wife yet a wives childhood stuff damaged.....hmmm tough one......have you thought of getting some gas and lighting the house on fire....then blame it on the firefighters....thats the only way out I see

[marie]

I'm going to have to agree with Murminator on this one




....your screwed

[Myka]

I would suggest you pack an overnight bag, and sleep in a hotel for a couple days to let her simmer down. Leave a bouquet of red roses and a note that just says, "I'm sorry. I love you. Be back in a few days."

[rkelman]

You are sooo screwed. Good luck!

When she gets home take her out to dinner at a very exceptive one at that and say I'm sorry but I have to leave you before you see our basement. pay for dinner and drop her off at the house stay in a hotel. By the way you have to have a suitcase packed in the trunk of the car. leave her a note explaining that you will never flood the house again to do so you are going to have the ro unit mounted in the basement permanently. You can run a 1/4" line upstairs from the RO unit with a shutoff valve on it.

Bill

P.S. if she finds where you are before she calms down you are dead or she is a very forgiving women and then you want to make sure you keep her.

[Zoaelite]

+1 Lighting the house on fire

[Doug]

Ouch. I feel for you. I would be there in a sec to help if I was closer.