Jerry Nelson

We were tooling along I-80 when my wife suddenly and randomly exited the freeway. I secretly hoped that she had perceived the growing anxiety I was experiencing due to the extra-large coffee I consumed earlier. But no.

All homeowners are familiar with a few inescapable truisms. Among them are “a roof never leaks when it isn’t raining,” and “the kids always choose to drink neon-red Kool-Aid the day after you install a new white carpet.”

A maxim that my wife and I experienced recently is the one that goes “it’s never a good sign when the plumber shows up with both an excavator and a jackhammer.”