An Important Lesson

My dad’s toilet hasn’t worked properly for a couple years now. He has neither the money nor the skill to have it fixed, so he’s just sort of let it be, filling up the tank by hand with jugs of water whenever he needs to use it. So I decided that as part of his Christmas present this year, I would buy whatever parts need to be replaced and fix it for him. I like to think I learned a valuable life lesson from this experience. If someone says “I’d like you to fix my toilet, please,” you say no. And if they say, “I’d really just as soon you didn’t fix my toilet,” you don’t insist.

On the upside, after a good seven hours of effort, it does in fact work.

-TC