At moments... yesterday, I went outside to insulate the pipes on my well. There's a faucet that comes out of the pipes and we keep a hose connected to it because we don't have a faucet close to the trailer. I moved the hose a little to get to the pipes better, and water started leaking out around the metal fitting. I got my channel locks out and went back to tighten it down a little. I got a good grip, started to tighten and the entire faucet snapped off. Water began pouring out, and soaked me completely. I shut the power off to the well, and stomped back to the house cursing and ranting and feeling very much like a loser. Why does this shit always happen to me?? We had a broken pipe, no water and no one we called could come out and work on it.
I'm not a plumber. When I mess with stuff like that, I usually get stymied somehow or another. Either I don't have the right tools, can't get the right parts, or just don't know how to solve the problem. That's if I don't just end up tearing it up completely. I was going to try some sort of temporary fix, just so we could have water until a real plumber could come out and work on it. In the end, though, I decided to tackle the job myself. It took a couple of trips to ACE Hardware, some new tool purchases and a couple of hours total, but I fixed it!