{"id":20550,"date":"2017-03-23T23:26:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T23:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20550"},"modified":"2017-03-23T23:26:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T23:26:48","slug":"this-plumber-did-it-the-right-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20550","title":{"rendered":"This plumber did it the right way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wall_hyd_drip_lrg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20551\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wall_hyd_drip_lrg-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wall_hyd_drip_lrg-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wall_hyd_drip_lrg-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/wall_hyd_drip_lrg.jpg 766w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I must be living right.<\/p>\n<p>How else does one explain a fruitful experience with a plumber?<\/p>\n<p>We called the plumber 10 days ago to trouble-shoot a kitchen sink issue: the water pressure had slowed to a mere trickle; I tried to clear out the sediment that collects occasionally in the nozzle; it didn&#8217;t do a thing.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the call went out to the plumber.<\/p>\n<p>He answered the call and performed a &#8220;routine&#8221; service call on the clogged up kitchen faucet. Cost? $92.50. Then he left.<\/p>\n<p>Just a few days later, the faucet slowed way down &#8212; again!<\/p>\n<p>This morning I decided to call the plumber back. I phoned the office and told the receptionist about our problem. I mentioned to her that the plumber had done something to &#8220;fix&#8221; it just 10 days earlier. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s a &#8216;call back,'&#8221; she said, meaning she didn&#8217;t think we&#8217;d be charged for another service call.<\/p>\n<p>The plumber arrived a little while later. He repaired the faucet once more. Then he left.<\/p>\n<p>Later that morning, I was running the water. Then &#8212; just like that! &#8212; it slowed down <em>again.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was so mad I could&#8217;ve spit.<\/p>\n<p>I called the plumber back. Same morning. I told the receptionist that his second &#8220;fix&#8221; didn&#8217;t take.<\/p>\n<p>The plumber returned for the <em>third time<\/em> in 10 days &#8212; and twice in the same morning! He fixed it <em>yet again<\/em>. No service charge on that call, either.<\/p>\n<p>This time, he got it right. The water is flowing nicely.<\/p>\n<p>The message I want to leave? My wife and I are living the good life, which is so good.<\/p>\n<p>And not all plumbers are out to, um, <em>soak<\/em> their customers.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must be living right. How else does one explain a fruitful experience with a plumber? We called the plumber 10 days ago to trouble-shoot a kitchen sink issue: the water pressure had slowed to a mere trickle; I tried to clear out the sediment that collects occasionally in the nozzle; it didn&#8217;t do a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20550\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This plumber did it the right way<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[342,7023],"class_list":["post-20550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-local-news","tag-amarillo-water","tag-plumbers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20552,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20550\/revisions\/20552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}