How many emergency plumbing Virginia problems have you had? I heard a stand up comic joking about the most dreadful experience in the world. It starts with going to someone's home and using their bathroom. All is fine until you flush the toilet and you see it start to clog up and start to back up. You notice there is no plunger. Now the panic. You start to talk to the toilet urging it not to back up. You have one option only at this point the comic says... You have to burn down the house so no one discovers you clogged the toilet.

The comic says you know what you have to do... You must set fire to the house before they discover you clogged their toilet. Did you watch the film Dumb and Dumber? It starred Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey.

There was a scene of a plumbing emergency if there ever was one. Jim Carrey and Daniels are both after the same girl. Before his date with her Carrey a bottle of laxative into Daniel's drink and as he is on his way to meet her at her house he fills his stomach and the rest of his body start to rumble.

As she lets him into her home she tells him she is almost ready and to make himself comfortable. By this point Daniels is ready to blow up. He finds a bathroom and rushes to the toilet. He lowers his pants and has the relief of a life time. His date hears him in the bathroom and tells him she hopes he is not using the toilet because it is broken. I told you it was an emergency if there ever was one in the plumbing world.

I had a plumbing emergency one time. I attempted to repair a leading sink faucet in the bathroom at the house I was living in. I figured it had to do with the washer. I knew I probably had to turn off the water supply before I started working. But I could not find the shut off valve. I looked under the sink, in the yard and around the house... No shut off valve. I did not want to shut off the main water main because if I did the water company would have to come out and turn it back on.

So in my genius of mind I decided I did not have to shut off the water supply. I could fix it without having to shut off the water. So I took my wrench and proceeded to turn and twist the ball bearing off the faucet handle. It did not budge at first. But it started to give. I felt it get loose. I thought I will have it fixed before the game comes on the television I figured. I twisted a few more times.

All of a sudden the faucet handle burst with a cold water fountain drenching me. The water was bouncing off the ceiling and giving me a cold shower. I tried to find the part that exploded off. I discovered it near the toilet. With a rain of cold water all over me I tried shoving the part back in.

It blew from my hand as I tried to force it in. I grabbed if off the floor again and with a determined shove I finally got it locked back in. The shower was over but the bathroom was flooded and I was drenched. I caught my breath and called the plumber.