Sleeping In Saves The Day

If you're an adult, you probably like sleeping in.  So do I.  Since I'm unemployed at the moment, I get to sleep in pretty often.  I look at it as making up for all the sleep I missed when I was working as a taxi driver.  But for the last couple weeks I've been walking in the mornings, my attempt to start losing the weight I need to lose.  So I've been getting up a little earlier than normal.  Today I rolled over and went back to sleep... twice.  About the time I was going to get up and go walk, I heard our upstairs neighbors moving something big.  Since the washer and dryer go in the closet in my room, I figured that's what was being moved in.  As I lay there listening to the ceiling creak from the action above, I remembered that it was supposed to rain today.  That was a good enough excuse to not go walking today.  So I rolled over and went back to sleep for a third time.  Jealous, aren't you?

I woke up a little while later and heard the neighbors' new washing machine running.  I still didn't feel like getting up.  So I laid there half asleep for a while.  That's when I heard it.  Over the sound of the new upstairs washing machine I heard a faint "tink, tink, tink."  No, not Tinkerbelle, it was the sound of water drops hitting a metal surface.  "That's not good," I thought to myself.  So I finally got up, and sure enough, there was a drip of water coming from the closet ceiling onto our washing machine.  I threw my shoes on and headed to the upstairs neighbors' front door.  The young woman answered and I told her her new washing machine was leaking.  She turned it off right away.  The leak stopped.  Cool.

It was an about an hour later when the washing machine installers and our apartment maintenance guys found the leak.  The plumbing and hoses were fine, but there was a small crack in the connection on the back of the washer.  They fixed it, tested it, and everything worked  fine. 

If I wouldn't have slept in, the washer would have run its full cycle and probably ruined  their floor and our ceiling.  It's cool when every once in a while things just work out.