Is your day full of errands? Take a moment for some Saturday morning plumbing magic.
I bend over to look at the black hole that extends deep below the tub down to...Australia?As with most questions about electricity, cars or marriage, I nod my head knowingly, while trying to hide the not-a-clue neon sign on my forehead. Merely nodding is usually not enough to throw the questioner off, so I quickly follow with an old lawyer dodge.Raul is not so easily fooled. He smiles at my not-a-clue neon sign and goes back to work. I get it. But I know the real secret: Plumbing is magic.
I know this because I listen to his one-sided discussions from the other room. Does Raul expect the tub faucet to respond to his plaintive request to work correctly? Does the pipe agree that it should turn at a right angle so that the soldering gun can more easily reach it? Does telling a toilet that it is a “son of a biscuit eater” really persuade the toilet to place itself properly?
This is also plumbing — the magical land of fittings and gaskets and soil pipes. Oh, yes, and people. Logan Phillips takes our order. A no-nonsense, get-it-done kind of man. He carefully makes sure we have forgotten nothing, and then disappears into the back rooms. A short time later, he returns, smiling, everything Raul ordered in hand. I suspect he is also a magician.
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