Answer me why…

Everyone else can write about the important stuff. My blog is for asking pointless questions that no one either bothers to answer or simply can’t answer. (Oh, wait, I was informed the aloe vera was dying because it was getting too much water. I stopped watering it except when the soil was completely dry and, well, my big beautiful plant still died. It was gorgeous up to the end though, looked beautiful even as the roots all signed out.)

So, Super G. knocks on the door this AM to let us know they’re working on the pipes upstairs and the water will be turned off for a while. I have no idea how long the water might be turned off or what might go wrong and a life time of living in undependable circumstances has me promptly filling up the bathtub and several pots in the kitchen just in case.

By the way, ever since our new upstairs neighbor moved in, our kitchen sink is having to be plunged a couple of times a week. What’s she doing up there in her kitchen?

But back to our bathroom…

We weren’t without water that long.

Eau De City available again, I go in to brush my teeth.

Surprise!! The water is now coming out of the bathroom faucet at an angle. Serious. All the previous days we’ve lived here, the water has gone straight down, focused on the drain like it should be. Now, even on low, the stream of water is at such an extreme angle that it’s shooting to the left and missing the drain by over an inch. The higher I turn up the water, the more at an angle the water shoots out of the faucet until it’s shooting a full couple of inches to the side of the drain.

It’s not a matter of a washer and fixing the washer as it has no washer.

So, tell me why the water is shooting out of the bathroom faucet to the side of the sink? Is it an air bubble that’s gotten in the pipes and once the pipes burp it’ll be all right?

I went back and checked again and the hot water alone goes pretty much straight down. It’s the cold water that’s doing this. And if I turn on the cold and hot water together, the cold overrides the hot water’s inclination to obey gravity.

And no, the building isn’t falling over, not that I can tell.


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