I've sprung a leak

[accelafine]

I would have read it anyway

[Maia]

I would have read it anyway

Glad to hear it!

[Maia]

When I left, this morning, another, different guy came up to me and asked, sounding somewhat surprised, I felt, if I lived here, as they were about to turn the water off again, to do something else next door. He said it would be off for about an hour, which was fine, I thought, as I'd be out. I went for a walk and deliberately stayed out longer than I might have, coming back after about three hours, only to find the water still off. As I write, there are various banging and clunking noises coming from next door, and voices coming from the back garden, including, I think, the guy from yesterday.

I'll keep everyone updated with this riveting story, but it's a nice day, so I'll probably head out again and sit in the park, or something.

[Flannel Jesus]

When I left, this morning, another, different guy came up to me and asked, sounding somewhat surprised, I felt, if I lived here, as they were about to turn the water off again, to do something else next door. He said it would be off for about an hour, which was fine, I thought, as I'd be out. I went for a walk and deliberately stayed out longer than I might have, coming back after about three hours, only to find the water still off. As I write, there are various banging and clunking noises coming from next door, and voices coming from the back garden, including, I think, the guy from yesterday.

I'll keep everyone updated with this riveting story, but it's a nice day, so I'll probably head out again and sit in the park, or something.

I would like to see this story branch into two directions. One direction is just, you give us the real updates to the real story as it's really happening. Then, separately, write a branch of the story where increasingly ridiculous imaginative things keep happening. It just gets weirder and weirder, for the better or the worse.

[Maia]

When I left, this morning, another, different guy came up to me and asked, sounding somewhat surprised, I felt, if I lived here, as they were about to turn the water off again, to do something else next door. He said it would be off for about an hour, which was fine, I thought, as I'd be out. I went for a walk and deliberately stayed out longer than I might have, coming back after about three hours, only to find the water still off. As I write, there are various banging and clunking noises coming from next door, and voices coming from the back garden, including, I think, the guy from yesterday.

I'll keep everyone updated with this riveting story, but it's a nice day, so I'll probably head out again and sit in the park, or something.

I would like to see this story branch into two directions. One direction is just, you give us the real updates to the real story as it's really happening. Then, separately, write a branch of the story where increasingly ridiculous imaginative things keep happening. It just gets weirder and weirder, for the better or the worse.

I'll give it some thought...

The water is back on, anyway, and the workmen are no longer next door, or at least, I can't hear them, but so far, that's all there is to report.

[promethean75]

When this fiasco is finally over, before you use water for anything, let the faucet run for a minute or two. There may be debris in the pipes now if the british proletariat had to open them up during the repair.

If you don't, you may very well find a twig or rock in your morning cuppa.

[Maia]

When this fiasco is finally over, before you use water for anything, let the faucet run for a minute or two. There may be debris in the pipes now if the british proletariat had to open them up during the repair.

If you don't, you may very well find a twig or rock in your morning cuppa.

When I first ran the tap it spurted and sputtered, on and off, for a few seconds. And the pipes in my bathroom sound like they have a bad attack of indigestion.

[Phil8659]

I was informed by the local water company on Saturday that there's a leak somewhere on my side of the street, but they don't know where, exactly, and that it's either mine, or my landlord's, responsibility to get it fixed. I phoned them up first thing on Monday and had a rather lengthy discussion with one of their representatives. She asked me, first of all, to go out into my back garden to check if there was any water accumulating anywhere, which was definitely fun, if a little messy, but I was unable to locate any excess water, other than that caused by the fact that it was raining. She then informed me that according to law, I, or my landlord, am supposed to hire a plumber, and if I don't, they'll serve an enforcement order and send their own people round, at greater cost, which will be shared be all households downstream, as it were, from the leak. I asked if I would still be liable if I paid for a plumber, but one of the other households didn't, and she said yes, so I suggested, not unreasonably I feel, that there was no point, therefore, in hiring one, to which she had no response.

So basically, at some unknown date in the near future they'll presumably be sending some workmen round to traipse through my flat in their muddy boots, to dig my back garden up, and they won't even guarantee to put it back how they found it.

Personally, I believe that you were misinformed, and probably on purpose. The water line runs, at least here, actually on the side of the street. There is a shutoff valve that goes to each individual house. So, after that shut off, is yours, but, if the leak is before it, it belongs to the city to fix. As is going on right now on my street. The city water has no right of easement on your property other than if the shut off valve is on it. In any case, all of their piping is there cost. In fact, if you tamper with those pipes they will not hesitate to sue you for public endangerment, for water contamination.

[promethean75]

Sound advice. You should leave those men's pipes alone, Maia.

[Phil8659]

Sound advice. You should leave those men's pipes alone, Maia.

Maia? I would not consider myself as being the offspring of Hermes, messenger of the gods. A messenger has to have someone to deliver the message to, and I have never had that pleasure.

[Maia]

I was informed by the local water company on Saturday that there's a leak somewhere on my side of the street, but they don't know where, exactly, and that it's either mine, or my landlord's, responsibility to get it fixed. I phoned them up first thing on Monday and had a rather lengthy discussion with one of their representatives. She asked me, first of all, to go out into my back garden to check if there was any water accumulating anywhere, which was definitely fun, if a little messy, but I was unable to locate any excess water, other than that caused by the fact that it was raining. She then informed me that according to law, I, or my landlord, am supposed to hire a plumber, and if I don't, they'll serve an enforcement order and send their own people round, at greater cost, which will be shared be all households downstream, as it were, from the leak. I asked if I would still be liable if I paid for a plumber, but one of the other households didn't, and she said yes, so I suggested, not unreasonably I feel, that there was no point, therefore, in hiring one, to which she had no response.

So basically, at some unknown date in the near future they'll presumably be sending some workmen round to traipse through my flat in their muddy boots, to dig my back garden up, and they won't even guarantee to put it back how they found it.

Personally, I believe that you were misinformed, and probably on purpose. The water line runs, at least here, actually on the side of the street. There is a shutoff valve that goes to each individual house. So, after that shut off, is yours, but, if the leak is before it, it belongs to the city to fix. As is going on right now on my street. The city water has no right of easement on your property other than if the shut off valve is on it. In any case, all of their piping is there cost. In fact, if you tamper with those pipes they will not hesitate to sue you for public endangerment, for water contamination.

It's all been a bit of a learning curve, I must admit. My flat is the ground floor of a former council house, not particularly new, either, built in 1929, I believe, and all the houses on one side of the road, of which there are six, share the same pipe, which runs under the back gardens, and is why they had to shut the water off in all of them when they were doing work next door, which is still a council house, and therefore their responsibility. But, in any case, it'll be the landlord who pays, if any payment is required. It's just that no one seems to have any idea what they're doing.

[Maia]

Sound advice. You should leave those men's pipes alone, Maia.

Sage counsel, indeed, and very much my guiding principle, I think.

[Maia]

Sound advice. You should leave those men's pipes alone, Maia.

Maia? I would not consider myself as being the offspring of Hermes, messenger of the gods. A messenger has to have someone to deliver the message to, and I have never had that pleasure.

I believe he was addressing me. The main clue, I think, is that he used my name. Well, obviously not my real name. Maia was the mother of Hermes, by Zeus, not his offspring, and was the daughter of Atlas and Pleione.

[Maia]

And... they're back. The water has been turned off again, as of a few minutes ago.

[Flannel Jesus]

And... they're back. The water has been turned off again, as of a few minutes ago.

This is where I'd like to see an imaginative story.

The water was turned off. The mole people who live under my house have become ornery. They've come up to see what the problem is, because they're drying out and they would rather not move.