When Bad Things Happen

Imagine that you are a houseguest. Your hostess has left for work and you decide to be a gracious guest and do the dishes. You put the dishes in the sink, run some water to fill the sink then pour the contents of a cup of soapy water into the sink and start rinsing dishes. Once you have the dishes all rinsed and in the dishwasher you pull the plug in the sink and start the disposal, only to stop it almost immediately when you hear a horrible noise.





Omigosh! You reach through the sink into the disposal and pull out two horribly mangled rings and a pendant, sadly recognizing the pendant you gave to your hostess only a month ago as a very nice thank you gift. You also recognize the ring that your hostess has to hold the diamond she inherited from her mother, only the diamond is not in the disposal.

If you are not getting sort of a sick feeling in your stomach, you are not imagining very well, try harder!

Now, imagine your panic. You frantically call the plumber who comes out right away, (you were VERY persuasive!) and takes apart first the trap where you did not find the diamond, then looks with a flash light through the pipe and there, about an inch away from dropping forever into the sewer lies the diamond, several inches away from the opening of the pipe. Discussions are had, a coat hanger is found and bent into a narro crook and carefully, ever so slowly extended into the narrow pipe, knowing that one miscue and the diamond will be lost forever.

Finally the plumber pulls slowly and sighs with relief, the diamond is coming back. It is chipped, omigosh! It looks pretty good, but there is a chip on one side. Now, where is that tanzanite?



Why it was trapped in the disposal, and it is damaged too.



What in the HECK do you do now???

Out of time for now, must get to work, more later...

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