a JACKHAMMER!!!! Thanksgiving

Have you ever heard rushing water through your bathroom walls when there is no water running? How about going from 66cgal. of water a month to 225cgal. Basically filling a swimming pool. Have you ever called your utility company about the outrageous water consumption and been told "not to over react"? Well,I have and let me tell you the Monday before Thanksgiving is NOT the day to find out you have a leak in the guest bathroom pipe that is located in the slab your house sits on! And I'm not over reacting.
Our master and guest bath back up to each other and we were hearing water rushing through the walls. Constantly. We were told to shut off all the valves then go look at our water meter. If it was running we had a leak. The 1st month we did this not running, good no leak, still hear the water. We check the attic and walls and ceiling and walk around the whole house several times. After all if you have a leak that sounds that bad you should have a river somewhere, right? NOT! The next bill came, Holy Shit! Call the plumber. OMG!

Now friends tell us.."be glad its not in the wall". How do you figure? Since they will pull out the toilet, take a JACKHAMMER to my one year renovated bathroom and chisel a hole through what is equivalent to half the bathroom and thru the tile. We will then have to re-tile the bathroom and reset or buy a new toilet since the plumber mentioned that while it still looks good we "may" want to think about replacing it due to its age. 20. When did 20 become old? At least in the wall you slap on some sheet rock and paint tada! Especially when the husband just got finished tiling your kitchen counters. Yeah the enthusiasm was just flowing...along with the water and the money.

I will, like millions of other Americans have a house full of company on Thanksgiving and we all know what happens after dinner. You got it...Uncle Charlie is going to take his annual Turkey Day sit-downer in your guest bathroom. He will be quite proud and quite long, taking his relaxing sit-downer in your potty!
NO ONE will be able to go within fifty feet of the hallway thanks to "uncle Charlie". Has he no shame? Spray dammit spray! Turn on the fan, close the door!

Being of sound mind and body I have opted to wait till the Monday after Thanksgiving to take the JACKHAMMER to my guest bathroom. I will "drink" the extra water consumption and the extra cost in all fairness to my other guests. In the meantime when the husband leaves for work he will go out to the meter and shut off the water to the house and every afternoon when I get home I will go out to the meter and turn it back on. Unlike today when I came rushing in at 90 miles a hour slam the numbers into the alarm while un-zipping my pants and doing the pooppy dance, I make it to the potty just in time...ahhhhh. Finish with my "business" get up and pull the ever present, always working handle and NOTHING happened! Shit, shit, shit! The F&^%ING water is off! Dammit Grammice! Pull up my britches and carry my not to happy ass to the street to the meter and turn the water back on. Go back in the house and head for the bathroom that now smells like Uncle Charlie two days early!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone and stay tuned for pictures!