Pipes

We finished a big project at one of our schools recently which involved installing a second water meter for our irrigation water. This project was expensive but we will save thousands of dollars each year by having the water we're using to maintain our fields at this site (including baseball fields that are used by our local Little League) metered separately. It's been a two year process to get the project done - and it was finished about a month ago.

Except we received a call from the city this week telling us the water meter was not readable because the unit of measurement was wrong.

We informed the city that their inspector had signed off on the work - so they agreed to fix it. They worked with our contractor to make it right. This was my e-mail conversation with my boss -

Me (to my boss): H2O meter at [insert school name] is fixed. City paid plumber to fix it. We're up and running.

Boss: Great! We should drive over and check it out!

Me: It's a big pipe. :-)

Boss: You mean a very expensive big pipe.

Me: Point taken. If you want to go, I'm always open to a field trip - I could use the break.

I should have been a plumber.