Relaxing night in? Think again

5/11/2022 (Permalink)

Anyone up for a swim in the kitchen?

Nothing tops a night in with the family. After an exhausting week at the office, sometimes the best medicine is to just relax and do absolutely nothing at all. Order a pizza, watch a movie, and kick back.

After dinner, you task one of the kids (we will call him Billy for the sake of this conversation) with cleaning the dishes in the sink. Pizza has a nasty tendency to leave behind rock-hard cheese if left to its own devices for too long, after all, and you want to go sit in a warm bath. Billy plugs the sink and turns on the warm water to allow the dishes to soak. While he waits, he returns to the lively text conversation he was having with his buddies. They have been harassing him for the past twenty or so minutes, hounding him to jump online so they can continue playing their videogame.

Billy takes a quick glance at the sink and thinks to himself, “I could at least go turn on the Playstation and let everything warm up”, seeing that the water line is still far below the rim of the sink basin. He does just that, leaving the water to continue filling.

Twenty minutes and four matches later, Billy is stricken with a lightning bolt of terror as he realizes he left the water running in the sink. He makes a mad dash back into the kitchen to find that it has become a very shallow, very soapy pool. “Mom isn’t going to like this”, he thinks to himself as he begins his walk of shame toward your bathroom to give you the bad news.

So much for a relaxing night off.

If this scenario or one similar to it plays out in your home, don’t hesitate to give SERVPRO of Walnut a call. Don’t worry; we won’t ask you for the full story, just the punchline.