[lit-ideas] Re: JOE THE PLUMBER

  • From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:26:15 -0500

Yeah, but do you know how to sweat pipes to install a new hot water heater?

I'm willing to try and tackle just about anything in the house with a high
risk of failure ...  except pipes.

I hate the bloody things.  They're evil.

On the whole though, being successful enough to be able to buy your own
company and then grousing about the 3% tax increase you might incur is a
strange claim to fame.

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  I'm jealous, to say the least, that plumbers get all the attention.  What
> about your heat, eh?  What about your AC, eh?  What about your goddamn
> refrigerator, eh?  To hell with all politicians.  We HVAC/R guys deserve to
> be heard from too.  Carl the carpenter?  He's got Christ on his side.  Otto
> the mechanic?  He's got Goodwrench extolling his virtues.  Elrod the
> electrician?  Everybody lights up when he comes around.  Yeah, well, just
> wait till next summer.  "What's that you say?  You're hot?  Ha!  Call a
> plumber."
> Enough, basta, zut!  I'm on strike.
>
>
> Mike Geary
> Memphis
>



-- 
Julie Krueger

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