Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
What on earth, sorry to just state the obvious, but wouldn’t it be difficult to get an overweight 84 year-old into a septic tank?
No. It would be easier than you think. Get ready for a story.
I went through this whole period of my raising teenagers who had friends over and I couldn’t always police where they were because we have a very large property. They’d be drinking in the horse barn or whatever.
At one point our septic tank pump failed and this huge buzzer went off in the main house and I had to flick all these control panel switches trying to make that one switch off at least until the morning. The house wasn’t burning down.
When I had a plumbing company come out to dig out the area of the pump and replace it, I am not joking … they told me in advance they had to have the skinniest of their guys come out here because he was the only one who could “get down there”
During the day my then teenage daughter and her boyfriend took her car to go and get pizza, coffee, who knows. But they were about to pull out of the property and looked the other way and saw the plumber lying face down on the driveway behind his truck. Cigarettes scattered beside him. He was apparently just having a smoke and keeled straight over. We called emergency services and they tried to resuscitate him but it didn’t work. When they opened his shirt they found out he’d already had some heart surgery.
I never had the heart to call that plumbing company back to be like “he didn’t finish the work!” And just had planks covering the opening to the septic tank.
Later found out my teenagers “friends” were throwing beer cans down there.
Could just as easily have been a body. I’m not making a joke. I only get that tank pumped annually in the spring.
I finally even only now have a suitable more sturdy pallet to place over that open sinkhole because I ordered like 16 bags of driveway salt and water filter salt in December. So nothing else falls in there.