A Black PVC Pipe from Twenty Years Ago.
By: Mr. George D. Patnoe., Jr!
February 12th, 2020.
About twenty years or so ago, I found a black plastic PVC pipe that is used for plumbing for various uses. It is about three feet long and about 4.5 inches wide, with a black matching cap on each end. I was riding a mountain bike for a very slow and easy ride around a lake when I saw that black PVC pipe which was located on the ground at a lake where it did not belong at all. I decided to pick it up and bring it home. After all, it was kind of strange that a black PVC pipe would be at a lake at all out in the middle of nowhere. I told myself that, 'Hey, maybe one day I might be able to use it.'
I tied down with rope that black PVC pipe on the mountain bike and I took it home with me. Funny, I know! Who in their right mind would pick up and bring home a black PVC pipe and bring it home with them, even if it was located at a park and lake where there was no reason for a black PVC pipe to be on the ground? Ok, I would, at least this time.
It was first being stored in the garage of one home and then I put it into the garage at the new home where I live now. For about twenty years or so, I continued to look at it and I continued to ask myself the same question over and over again, which was, 'What am I going to do with that black PVC pipe with the two caps on each end? When will I ever be able to use it for something grand, huge, and important?’
Well, today was that day, my dear readers. Today was the day that I used that black PVC pipe that I found at a lake about twenty years ago. Today was the day! Yes, gents and ladies too. Today was the day that that black PVC pipe would be put to use for a very important job plumbing related job that needed to be finished.
Today about 2 pm the electricity disappeared because PG&E was working on the lines down the street from my house. I did not want to read or do anything intellectual because the weather was so warm and perfect at about 72 degrees. No tv, no computer, no music, no lights on inside the house except the sunlight, but I could take a shower because the hot water tank was gas-powered. I looked at the plumbing job in front of the house next to the front porch and I thought to myself, ‘Today day is a good day to finish the job.’
The job started about a month or so ago when all of the water was being backed up for some reason I could not figure out until later. I asked myself, ‘Did the squirrels or skunk use their teeth to cut through the metal pipe? I answered it with a no, but I could not figure out what was stopping the water from going to the sewer pipes underneath the street. Hum.
I called the Rotor Rooter company and they sent out their best man for the job. We talked about the price and then he went to work using a very long snake for plumbing jobs. A snake is a long wire with a bit at the end of some sort to cut up anything in pipes. You can buy or rent a small one or rent a big one from a hardware store, but I wanted someone who actually knew what they were doing to do the job better and esp. faster than how I might have done it. For 350 US dollars, he used his long snake which was twirling around and around very fast to cut anything in the pipeline. He also used a camera that was located at the end of another very long metal wire thing so he could see everything inside the pipe that was located under the ground in my front yard.
What was blocking my water from exiting the house pipes and going into the sewer pipes? It was grassroots, it seems, after decades of the grass growing. Or it was the tree’s roots from next door on both sides of my house. In either case, the roots were cleaned out of the pipes like they were almost new, but still, sort of dirty. What I needed to do was attached a new pipe to the upper Y part of the sewer pipe because it needed to be replaced.
So today, I grabbed the clay pipe and I drove to the local hardware store, but they did not have any long pipes that I could cut to the exact size I needed. What they did have were black PVC pipes parts that plumbers would use to extend or bend or change the direction of black PVC plumbing pipes. I could not believe it. I would have to drive to another store like Home Depot and go hunting for a long black PVC pipe or a clay pipe if I could find one and I would have to cut it to the size which of course meant more work for me.
I drove back home with nothing whatsoever except for some small bags of popcorn. I walk a few feet inside the house when an instant idea popped inside my mind. ‘Use that black PVC pipe you found almost twenty years ago.’ All I needed to do was drive back to the local hardware store and find the perfect extender black PVC pipe which was five inches outside measurement, and a little less than five inches measurement for the smaller size black PVC pipe that I found about twenty years ago. I was so excited I could not believe it. Not only was I going to finish the job, but I was going to use the perfect black PVC pipe with a cover on it, which was going to bring the pipe just above the ground a few inches so someone else could find the thing.
I covered the ground with the replacement dirt that was supposed to be around the pipe. It looks so nice compared with having a small hole in the ground.
Do you find that amazing? I do! It is the story of my life; or a part of my life. Maybe here is the punch line.
For over twenty years, I have been writing about topics of metaphysics, the afterlife, storytelling, and other stuff. I am betting that there are so many people out there laughing at me because they are too ignorant to even begin to grasp some of my messages about say, the human consciousness and the afterlife. Or the current and future survival of the human species. Etc. But hopefully, there are intelligent people who will read those online essays and learn something new about life on all levels of existence. Those essays are online so like that black PVC pipe, they can be used anytime you want to read them. Or not! I just hope that my online essays are enjoyed by thinkers all around the globe. As for the non-thinkers, maybe they can learn something new!
