Today was a day at home for me so I decided to do lots of little things that I've been putting off. One 'job' was to call the apartment office with a short list of little repairs that needed to be made. One closet door had jumped its track, the sink faucet in the guest bath was leaking around the edges, and the drain in my bathroom sink was draining very slowly. I stressed that none of these was an emergency but shortly after 1:00pm a maintenance man showed up with a big tool box on wheels and another large bucket of materials. Perhaps this was a bit much but he did look ready for anything. I do understand because my husband used to say that you could always depend on a plumbing repair to become a much larger and more convoluted problem than first anticipated. He always assumed that the job would require at least four times as much time as first anticipated and at least one trip to the hardware store.
Happy ending: three hours later (and only one trip down to their supply room) I had a free flowing drain, a closet door that's back on track and a brand new faucet in the guest bath. It turned out that the old one was so old that they didn't have replacement parts for it. Even though I didn't lift a finger on these projects I have a nice feeling of accomplishment.
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