Apr 12 • General Discussion
Real story of last weekend
She was standing in the shower…
in sewage water.
All I did was flush the toilet.
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Five days after our housewarming party…
half the house stopped working.
Something was clogged 40 feet down the line.
No plumber would come out on Easter without charging a fortune.
So we did what most people do.
We ignored it.
Used the other side of the house.
Hoped it would fix itself.
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Two days later…
everything blew.
Toilet gaskets failed.
Sewage backed up into the house.
Including the shower Amanda was standing in.
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The plumber showed up, pulled 40 feet of line, and handed me a bill I didn’t want to look at.
“Toilet paper,” he said. “Lots of it. Probably from your party.”
Then he paused.
“This didn’t happen overnight.”
“This was building for months.”
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I’ve been thinking about that a lot since.
How many things on my team are building for months.
The person who stopped speaking up in meetings.
The friction between two people that everyone pretends not to notice.
The “we’ll deal with it later” that never gets dealt with.
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We caught ours before it got worse.
I’m not sure every team does.
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