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Story about my long time plumber. I used his company's plumbing service years ago when I was starting out. He was itchy to make some extra money on the weekend moonlighting. OK, fine and seems to be a upstanding guy. After few years, he was completely on his own running his plumbing business.
One time, I asked his helper about the condition of a toilet drain. It looked pretty bad with all debris from demo. Young guy, had a disgusted look on his face and I agree, it was a bit disgusting because of the was wax ring and gunk. I screamed for Rick to come and have a look so we can decide if it needed to be changed out for our client. He said to his guy, why didn't you look and see. He then proceeded to show him how it done. He takes his hand, no glove, sticks it down into the toilet drain, pass the flange and started to tap on it and feel for rust in the elbow. After that, he removed the sub-floor and took a look at the condition from down below. Turn to me and said, its all good and it will last for many more years to come. Then look at his guy and said,"next time you will need to do this for him". I couldn't hold back my laughter. Thank goodness I don't have to do this or be near them. Ever since, I never shook his hand again and usually jsut left a check on the hood of his truck. Told my guys to never, ever borrow his tools and if they do, wash up well with acid for three hours.
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