Hard to believe it's 2009. And if the past 24 hours is any indication... oh I hope not!!!! We're IN to buying shower stalls - that's how we've begun the New Year.
I am still not quite up to par - so sent Charles to L's in Greenville to pick up a shower stall - complete in a box.... so he gets one (or what he thinks is one) and gets back up the mtn. with it - (this was yesterday.) Unstraps the box and carries the pieces.. one glass door and section at a time... goes back out to the truck to get the bottom. There IS no bottom... THEN he reads the directions.
The bottom has to be purchased separately.
We get in the car to drive back to Greenville to get the doggone bottom. Inside the store he discovers that he bought the kind with no walls either. So we needed walls AND a bottom. That would be $450 more on top of the $308 + tax he's already spent.
From the car on my cell phone: "CT... we could have Ted build and tile one for less than that!"....
SO...... he found another shower stall- this one was the entire thing IN A BOX. Good enough. So for $350 more dollars he bought a second shower stall in a box and brought it to the house.
Last night after work, Jonathan helped his dad get the first batch of doors and parts back in the box so L's could resell it with dignity.
So two shower stalls in a box..... This morning Jonathan helped his dad bring in the second shower stall complete in a box. This would be while one of our contractors was throwing up in the woods outside the house. (His wife came in with the stomach flu and guess what? )
So.... Jonathan went on to work after spraying everything with Lysol..... and the telephone man showed up to install the house phone. He did, and left in short order. I asked the guy if he thought he might need therapy after having to come into all of this mess to do his job. He laughed and said, "No".... but I made mental note that he didn't SAY... "I've seen worse" (because this is H County and he probably HASN'T seen worse)..... [can you tell I'm getting paranoid?}
After this guy leaves.... Charles comes back in. This new shower-in-a-box makes NO SENSE to him so it has to go back. (we're in the groove now)....
As I type.... Charles is taking the first shower in a box back to H'ville. When he gets back, we're taking the SECOND shower in a box back to Greenville. We'll come up with something for his shower - may give him an outside shower (ha ha).
The worker is still sick but working anyway... the tile has to be finished TODAY he says even though I'm begging... BEGGGGGGING him to go home.....and he almost barfed again he said but managed NOT to.
Wonder how long it will take....
We're from the sublime to the ridiculous.
