For the first time in a long time, I have a woman asking me if I want to meet for a coffee.
I’d love to, but some fucking moron decided to dig without calling first and busted open a water main for the whole neighborhood and now I can’t even take a shower. I am about to go to the store to buy a bunch of jugs of water just so I can flush the toilet.
No timeline on when it’s going to be fixed, either.
Sometimes it really feels like the universe just likes to spit in my fucking face and then laugh at me.
Always keep at least three days worth of drinking water in your home, a gallon per person per day. So many emergency situations, large or small, can make water unavailable or unsafe. Having filters is also helpful, but you need actual full bottles on hand. For less plastic, go with the big bottles, you can drink from cups. And OP could have washed pits and crotch at least using some of his drinking water, since it’s not citywide so he could buy more on the way home from coffee.
Explain this to her and reschedule. Best case she will invite you over to take a shower at her place before the coffee.
Already did that, and didn’t get a response. 🙄
Maybe you dodged a bullet.
Honestly, that’s what I’m thinking since I got no response.
Honestly, it’s a huge unexpected step from “meet for coffee” to “come shower in my apartment.” Or depending how you worded it, you could sound like you’re just trying to bail on getting together. Just because you’re not lying it’s not necessarily believable, especially in a dating context. Maybe try again when you’re done dealing with this and clean again.
I mean, I definitely didn’t jump to “let me shower in your apartment” like some suggested, that’s absurd. The whole reason for starting with a coffee date is because it’s low-stakes and in public so either party can bail easily if it’s not a match. Women especially shouldn’t be giving out their home address to strangers and letting them in as a first-time-meeting. I am also a cancer patient with limited income so driving 20 minutes to the nearest truckstop or trying to buy a daypass at a local gym were both unrealistic as well.
I just asked to reschedule and was ghosted, but yeah, I get that people usually think that’s someone trying to flake out. It just sucks when you have a legitimate reason and that gets assumed.
Anyway, waters back on now.
Great! If you haven’t already, shower and text her you’re clean and available, although of course you understand if she’s busy right now.
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Hey, can’t go have coffee with you because the water’s been cut and I can’t shower after the big dump I took. No flushing either =D.
(that’s how it went in my mind)
Can you use a gym?
I don’t know, can you??
…and other great 90s teacher questions!
Not until you say I can!
If you’re going to make people ask, don’t be a dick when they do.
Perfect excuse to get a hotel room … ?
Power went out and PGE said it wouldn’t be restored for like five days. I built a habit of going to Starbucks every day and charging all my devices. Then I would read until the sun set. Then I’d pass the time watching tv episodes that I’d downloaded at Starbucks until I fell asleep.
The universe is a fickle asshole. Hope your water is back soon.
Head to a truck stop.
Meet up somewhere outside and stay sweaty!
And baby wipe shower first
The YMCA has showers. Just saying.
I wanted to plant a tree today. Dug a hole. Hit my Internet cable and cut it clean in half. Just my Internet cable though, not the whole neighbourhood. But still… no Internet until at least Tuesday.
I don’t how calling could have saved me from this predicament though. But at least now you know the universe doesn’t hate you, it hates everyone equally.http://www.callbeforeyoudig.org/washington/
At least in Washingon there are free services to locate pipes and lines for this exact purpose.
Also, it’s a legal requirement for anything deeper than 12 inches, and the 12 inch exemption is mostly for homeowners and road work.
https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=19.122
Finally, I’m pretty sure you’d have be using a backhoe or other industrial equipment to bust open a water main that affects a whole neighborhood.
Yeah, joe shmoe the average homeowner is never going to hit a water main. Those are going to be over 6ft down so there’s basically no way you hit one with a shovel.
I remember when a company doing road work did do due diligence, called, was told exactly where an oil pipeline was.
Then they hit the pipeline.
Turned out that the US oil company had lost the maps showing the precise pipeline location and had lied to everyone.
Fuck big oil.
In my city we had a huge tunnel project a few years ago. The giant boring machine hit a pipe and broke, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in delays. Turns out it was one of the pipes that they had drilled into the ground to check soil conditions for the tunnel. Their own goddamn pipe, they just forgot it was still down there.
That one made me snort!
In Canada, click before you dig (same thing rebranded) they can only locate public utilities. So water, power, gas, maybe main data lines. But private lines aren’t, so if someone installed a shed and ran power, click before you dig can’t find it.
Sometimes you need to pay a private locator, they will dig through permits and prints, and use tools to locate possible lines. But if a homeowner buried their own power or water lines…. Your SOL in all regards.
Calling is how you get someone to make sure there’s no cables down there.
I doubt they’d mark non-dangerous, buried by the lowest bidder, no paperwork fiber cables. But you never know.
They’re supposed to.
It’s all part of the service, right? Also losing internet could be dangerous in the same way a landline phone cable is. (Ie preventing someone with VOIP phone service from calling for help.)
It can also cause harm for people who work from home, etc.
When its about taking a shower, the gym (you may can take a free lesson or pay for a single session), the swimming pool/spa and even truck stops have showers. Also it can be a topic to talk about and maybe she invites you over.
Very curious if a match for SnotFlickerman might be TissueBoogercatch.
