Miscellaneous: Today, I had a planned 12-hour power cut for maintenance work,...

By Powerless - 30/08/2012 06:05 - Australia

Today, I had a planned 12-hour power cut for maintenance work, which I'd forgot all about. In need of a shower before work, I spent 45 minutes boiling pots of water on the stove to take a lukewarm, 6-inch deep bath, before realizing my water heater runs on natural gas and was working fine. FML

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Today, the gas company came to connect our stove for free. While here, they broke our hot water heater, shut it off, and issued us a hazard notice. We can fix it, but they won't be able to come back for another two weeks to turn the gas back on. We don't have any hot water until then. FML

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Today, my mother told me to take a quick shower. When I got out, she told me I took too long, and now I have to pay the utilities bill. My shower was two minutes long. FML

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By NowABlonde - 09/03/2009 16:23 - United States

Today, I decided to lighten my hair. I applied the dye and waited 20 minutes. When I went to wash the dye out, the water wouldn't turn on. After my head started to burn, I called the landlord in a panic. Turns out there was a water main break and the entire city block doesn't have water. FML

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Thursday 30 August 2012 12:12

Always check first. Also, wouldn't it be more efficient to boil one or two pots of water and use a simple washcloth?

lovemesomeanth 2

Thursday 30 August 2012 12:13

Thank god for running water and water heaters, imagine having to boil your own bath water every single day.

Comments

DocBastard 38

Thursday 30 August 2012 14:40

Even if your water heater were electric, the vast majority of them have a large reservoir which would easily supply enough hot water for a shower. That said, you only wasted 45 minutes of your life and learned a valuable lesson. Any day that you learn something is not a wasted day.

SqueakyChipmunk 21

Thursday 30 August 2012 14:50

Even if your water is off, don't you have friends that'll let you use their shower? That's what I did when my water got cut off.

sarbear293 4

Thursday 30 August 2012 16:02

First world problems. At least you have water to take a bath:) but FYL OP.

Stain92 14

Thursday 30 August 2012 17:07

Even if your water heater is Natural Gas most of them are lit by electrical sparks. I take it you can light yours yourself?

wubbazugg 5

Thursday 30 August 2012 17:43

I'd be more worried about the freezer contents 0.o

MaJiCiDe 5

Thursday 30 August 2012 17:49

In 45 mins you couldn't realise gas was heating your water the whole time???

Omer_Kalopiuzur_fml 1

Thursday 30 August 2012 17:52

It is well known that the shower as supreme value of the bourgeois class, is entered in the customs very late: until the 50s, it was the bath, if possible more, which was prized by the Lords. Shagged his lady while washing the bullet hole was considered the highest honor.

Batmark 10

Thursday 30 August 2012 18:18

the opposite happened to me. . . I tried to take a shower when my power was off thinking my heater was gas like my stove and house heater are ... I was shocked to find it wasn't