If you could shower with bottled H2O....

So crazy day here so far....to be expected. Thursdays Joe doesn't get here until 3, and then he usually mows.

Since I am always around the house Thursday, its always the day that I wash all the sheets, scrub the couch etc. The cleaners come on Friday and I always feel better to know that EVERYTHING is clean after they leave.

The day started out normal. Dropped the big kids off at school, ran to Target to pick up things for the party tonight, came home, turned on the faucet and NOTHING CAME OUT!

So of course I went around the house trying out each and every faucet thinking that in some strange coincidence someone had broken all the faucets in the hour that I was running errands. Contrary to popular belief, no, I am not that dumb. Its called denial, and I had a MAJOR case of it. No way, there is no way possible that we didnt have any water. Maybe if I just waited 5 minutes and then tried again it would come gushing out.......no luck. I was having people over for dinner.....I had all the sheets off the bed. MY HOUSE WAS A PIT THAT NEEDED WATER TO CLEAN IT.

So I called the city of Urbandale to see what the heck was going on. Oh, but first, I checked Wells Fargo to make sure we paid our bill. Wouldn't that be embarrassing.....calling pissed off raising hell only to realize your service was CUT OFF because you forgot to send a check.
Once I checked bill pay to be sure that indeed, they had taken all $236 dollars of our money a mere 2 weeks ago, I called.

The lady on the other end of the phone was obviously annoyed-- why are people bothering her at the water utility just because they don't have water????...I mean whats the big deal????...you don't need water to live or anything!!!!!!!!!! After she pulled the stick from her ass and decided to check the computer she did indeed confirm that we had no water. No shit. That's why I called.

After much probing I found out that they had shut off the water main to our neighborhood to widen a street. Some how due to "a small glitch" in the system we hadn't received the customary letter a week prior or the phone call reminding their customers to plan accordingly. Whoops...... I would call that a huge glitch in the system when you are the one who wasn't contacted. She then offered to have a worker bring out some bottled water. They would just assign the charge to my bill. Well, as sweet as that is......unless you can bring out 100 cases, pre heated and somehow plug it into the water line that services my house, I am not interested. I cant shower with bottled water.....