ralph my world

What can bring a man to violent madness and dispair in fifteen minutes or less? Plumbing....at least today that was the case. The bathroom faucet had been dripping for about a month so today I figured that it would be a good thing to take care of. Maybe it was good to fix the faucet in the larger sense but the experience was awful. First, this operation is at home and the tool selection here is grim.Of course I proceed anyway with totally fucked up and inadaquate tools, experience and patience... as if my positive spirit will carry me through this miserable task-trouble is I do not posess a positive spirit. The only spirits I posess of any kind are the ones in the liquor locker.Problem #1. I like to tighten nuts and bolts to thier limit. This is precisely how I installed the last faucet. I really had a bitch of a time loosening all of those fittings that I had gorilla-torqued on three years ago.problem#2. The faucet I had installed last time had no replaceable parts so I had to buy a new faucet. I went and bought the faucet at a big hardware store that was going to close early as it was Sunday. If I needed anything else to finish the job I would and did have to go elsewhere-twice actually. Three trips to the hardware store, a big chunk bashed out of the sink pedestal ( it's now 'antiqued' I would like to say....) and about 1 1/2 hours of knuckle-scraping wrenchwork and it's done. No leaks yet, anyhow. I hope that the next time I can afford to have someone else,let's say a plumber , perhaps do the job.