he said ballcock
Plumber: You need to change your ballcock and flapper. Here's my card. Give us a call if your boyfriend doesn't have time to do it or something.
I don't, by the way, make this shit up.
I will spare you the "feminist ape-shit rant" about gender bias, household duties and general plumbing competence - mostly because I gladly accept assistance when a guy carries something heavy for me, changes my oil, puts together furniture, or figures out what's wrong with my car. However, I'd gladly accept assistance from a woman willing to do the same. The bottom line is that I would like to assess the situation first and then make a judgment.
Scenario 1: I need to change the ballcock and flapper. Do I:
(a) hop on the internet and/or read a Popular Mechanics and have a go at it
(b) ask my boyfriend to do something about it which would involve him doing (a)
(c) hire a plumber to massively overcharge me for something that I should be able to hop on the internet or read a PM and figure out?
If you haven't yet figured this out, that was a rhetorical question. I don't need anything answered, fixed, analyzed, repaired, lifted, assembled, or beat senseless.
For now, enjoy this phone call I just made:
S: Hello?
Me: Hi. Do you know how to change a ballcock and/or flapper?
S: Is that something in the bathroom?
Me: Toilet parts.
S: No ... I've never done it.
I'm about to say "Me neither" when S says, "But I'm sure I could figure out how."
Me: Mm-hm, I'm sure I could too.*
S: But I'm sure your dad knows how.
[GONG. End of show.]
*... and we were doing so well!
4 comments:
Or, for future reference, you could call Vickie, because, amazingly enough, it's the only plumbing type thing she knows how to do.
well, at least the plumber thought you were heterosexual.
v - are you SERIOUS? teach me to rock, too!
dan - at least the plumber assumed i knew how to use a telephone.
well that goes without say! of course girls know how to use phones. gab gab gab gab.
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