the source
This is my post for #freewriters 2554 prompt don’t name the source hosted by @mariannewest
Just in case I don’t name the source under this photo, look at what I wrote under the top picture. I was in a deep sleep last night it was after mid night, the source was yelling, "Mom, Mom, get up." The hot water side of the shower came off, and hot water was shooting across the bathtub. I have been yelling for you, but you did not get up.
There she was standing over me saying come and fix it, water is going everywhere. There was no fixing it. I grabbed a flashlight and went out the back door. I knew we had a shutoff valve somewhere at the back of the house but I could not find it. The only thing I could think to do was shut the power off that went to the water pump which made it stop.
I told my husband about it when he got up but he was going fishing, he would work on it when he got home.
When they opened, I went to Home Depot and bought two new faucet handles with the guts that go in them. I brought them home and they would not work.
When my husband got home he tried and said the threads were stripped. I wrapped Teflon tape around the old one and screwed it back in place. I think it might last for a few more showers. The man at HD told me that I would have to go to a place that sells mobile home parts to get the right one.
I need to start looking at pictures after I take them. I took this one of my little sister's new truck but it is blurry.
I am so proud of her for getting it but I hope she will be able to make the payments on it. She had a van that she had put a lot of money in and now the timing belt broke and ruined the engine. She carried AAA insurance and called them to get towed, she had her 2 granddaughters with her, and this was 4 in the afternoon she was told she had to stay with the van. She kept calling them, telling them she had the grandkids with her, and they said she would get top priority. At 11pm she told them someone was coming to get her and this person told her that she did not need to stay with the van, all she needed to do was open the place where the gas cap is at and place her keys in there, she did this and went home.
The next day she called to find out where it was towed and they told her that a wrecker was sent but no one was there so the wrecker left. She had to get a ride back out there because they would not get it without her being there.
The tow truck finally came, 4 o'clock the next day but the tow truck broke and they had to send another one, the new tow truck driver fixed the first one and they were able to put her van on it and tow it to a garage. The garage told her the bad news about the timing belt.
The place where she bought this truck gave her 700 for her van, but they made up for it in what they are going to get out of her in payments. She says now she will need to go to full time at work, I hope they give her the hours she needs.
I am very proud of her she spent 15 years drugging and living on the streets, and now she has been clean for 15 or more years, she is raising her 2 granddaughters and drives a damn nice truck. It is a 2011 Ford 150 with a 6 cylinder engine.
photos are mine