Having water at your finger tips whenever you want it.

Tweet

If you live in an area where water is pumped into your house by the city, fresh and clean and all you have to do to get some is turn on the spigot you tend to get used to that. What would you think if one day you turned on the spigot and nothing came out? Would your first thought be that you might have missed the due date on the bill for this service? Or would you assume that something had gone wrong with the system like a burst pipe? Today this happened to us. I knew I had paid the bill myself so I was sure that wasn't it but the water meter man could have made a mistake. So I called the water company and asked them if they were having a problem with the water. She informed me that the company that does maintenance on their system had come to do their work and that was why the water was off but they had not given advance warning that they were coming so they had had no opportunity to warn the customers of this happening. She also told me they would have it back on as soon as possible. Well, a couple of hours later the water came back on so my daughter started to wash her hair, and she has a lot of it. She got her hair wet and all lathered up with shampoo and the water went off again. Boy was she mad. So I called the company again. Again the lady apologized but said there was nothing they could do until the work was finished and that the water would probably come on and go off several times before they were finished. She had no idea how long it was going to take. Earlier, this morning, my daughter filled some empty bottles with water and put them in the refrigerator to get cold so she got those out and rinsed her hair with ice cold water. She was definitely not a happy camper I'm telling you. In hind site it was kind of funny though. The look on her face when the water went back off was priceless. It is getting close to time to start supper and the water has been back on for awhile now but I decided to call one more time to make sure they were through with the off and on before I tried to do anything in the kitchen.