Splish Splash Making a Path

 Splish Splash Making a Path
Splish splash, making a path…that’s what happened Saturday evening. My day started out as a normal day. After I woke, checked my blood sugar, and ate breakfast, I watched some television, waiting for the pharmacy to open. My doctor ordered a new medication for the heartburn that I was having. She decided that it was what I needed instead of popping a few antacid tablets when it occurred. Some of the medications that I am on have the side effect of heartburn.
After I came home, I did a few chores and then the old couch potato in me sat down to watch some television and catch a nap. That’s my normal day. My phone rang. It was my daughter. She said that the water line in front of my house had sprung a leak. I can’t remember how she found out. I went to my front door and it was true. There was a fountain shooting out of the ground. It was onll about eight inches high, but the stream was flowing down the road several inches deep and anout five feet wide. Cars were running through it shooting rooster tails of water into my yard. The splash was more of a whomp as the splash hit the undereside of the vehicles fender. I could hear it inside, but there is a bump in the road. The sound was similar to vehicles pulling a trailer and I dismissed it. It was a common noise that I’dd gotten used to hearing.
I called the water ccompany to report it. The voice answering my call said that it had already been reported and the repair crew waas on it’s way.True to their word, the repair crew arrived about 5 pm, shutting off the flow of water. Several more vehicles trickled in, one was a truck towing a flatbed trailer. On the trailed was a bright yellow Deere back-hoe. Unlooaded they began digging a trench about 20 feet long. Mud, shale, and water was scooped from the hole and hauled away. Another vehicle arrived. It was very much like a vacuum cleaner. It sprayed water to loosen the soil and thenn sucked it up into a tank.
Slowly the men cleared a hole to about 5 feet deep, exposing the punctured pipe then cutting out the damaged piece and replacing that section with a repair pipe. Finally they refilled the trench with more gravel fill. The crew finished at 9 pm. I went from sink to sink freeing the trapped air. I was glad that I remembered the last time and took the top of the toilet tank off. If I hadn’t, the tank top would have been in orbit.