Pea Trap

It's Friday. The sink has been broken since Sunday. The new part is sitting under the sink waiting to be attached. - Since Wednesday.

I believe this is a good time to share the pea trap story with you.

Way back when I still had that cute little studio apartment in Monte Vista and Roy was here by himself, I would visit on the weekends. One weekend he decided to upgrade the sink from the old stainless steel one to the white porcelain one he had given to him. To do that, he needed to run new pipes under the sink. He turned off the water on Saturday. He told me not to worry, it would be a day or two and it would be done. Lucky for me, I got to go back to my apartment Sunday afternoon for the week. Meaning, I did not worry about it. When I talked to him during the week he said it would be done by the weekend.

On Saturday morning he asked me if I was coming down. I told him after the sink was fixed. He said we would go get the rest of the stuff at Home Depot and we would have running water by bedtime. Okay. I'm good with that. So I came down. When I was going to bed, he was just getting started on the sink project. In the middle of the night, he comes in to tell me that he can't finish because he has the wrong size pea trap.  WHAT!?!?!

I figured out that there were a few 24 hour stores that would have what we needed, so I got up, dressed and off we went at 3 am. We took the plumbing pieces with us so we got exactly what we needed. We found it at Kmart at 410 and Marbach. It was right before it went out of business.

Roy finished the project when we got home and I was so happy to have running water for Sunday. Eight days after the project began.

I like to be all lazy and make breakfast. It's hard to do with a kitchen torn apart, no running water, no sink...  Especially when you have a perfectly good working kitchen at your apartment.

So when this pea trap showed it was rusted through last weekend. Roy was convinced we purchased it in the last few years at Home Depot. I reminded him of sink saga and driving around in the middle of the night to find the right piece. Dude, I am 100% sure it's at least 10 years old and it came from Kmart and it took 8 long days to for you to put the plumbing in for the new sink.

I may not remember all the details of each project in this on-going home renovation, but this one, I do. This is when I learned to add the power of 3 to every project. Time X 3 and Cost X 3. It's worked every time since this project when applied correctly.