How in the name of GOD do these clowns get their jobs????? And when a company hires some jerk, do they NEVER test them to see if the jerk knows what he’s doing???????
ARRRGHHHHH!
So….I go out to the pool and start to mess with the pump equipment, by way of cleaning out the filter’s strainer — which by now should be jammed with leaves and stuff, by now, right? Because Pool Dude was here several days ago.
And yeah, no question about it: I SHOULD have gone out there two or three days ago and checked the equipment. But no. I didn’t Because I was too damn lazy. And because, after all, that’s what I pay THEM to do, right?
Arrrghhhh! You’d think by now I’d know better, eh?
So I wander past the pump this afternoon and notice…uhhhh….waitaminit.
The pump’s strainer basket is sitting on the step stool.
Huh?
It’s not inside the pump, where it’s supposed to be. Some moron has taken it out of the pump and LEFT IT SITTING OUT. So all the leaves and crap can get sucked inside the equipment!
Ohhhh F****ck!
Shut everything down.
Take everything apart.
Clean everything out.
Swear, cuss, and swear some more.
Put the parts back together.
Seal the unit back up.
Pray to the Swimming Pool Gods…
Turn the unit back on…
SHHHHHHWWWWWWIIIIIIIIISHHH…..
A miracle!
Looks like the damn thing is working. And there’s even a chance it’s working right.
Well…Helle’s belles. We’ll know along about this time tomorrow afternoon if it actually IS running right. Because by this time tomorrow we’ll have a pool guy out here, to the tune of a pretty penny.
We can pretty much bet that the thing is busted or, at best, cattywampus.. Can’t hurt to hope, though.
But….in fact…. No. It looks like Harvey is probably busted. He’s just going around and around in little circles. That means tomorrow I’ll have to take him to the pool store…which will be quite the trick without a car!
Waitaminit…. Let’s take that back: It looks like Harvey is working but his hose has been shortened to the point where he can’t travel all the way across the bottom of the pool, shallow end to deep end and back. Hence: the elegant circles… Lo! the Explanation: Somebody stole several lengths of pool hose! Then disguised the theft by reconnecting the remaining hose to Harvey.
Goddammit!
WHY DOES EVERY MORON ON THE PLANET HAVE TO GET IN FRONT OF ME?????????
If they’re a moron, they’re guaranteed to come my way!
Man! Am I ever sick of STUPID STUFF.