Just like most things in life, there’s even a lighter side to plumbing. Lighter, let’s say, than how you might feel when you come home to a flooded basement. Or when the hot water runs out in the shower after you’ve just lathered up.
So with Thanksgiving fast approaching, we thought this was the perfect time to help you see that lighter side of plumbing, starting with the following seasonal fact:
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There’s your Black Friday, and then there’s our Black Friday.
Plumbers also call the day after Thanksgiving Black Friday, but not because we all meet up and go shopping together. Quite the opposite, actually. That’s because there are more clogged drains on the day after Thanksgiving than any other day of the year. So without even meaning to, year after year, you manage to keep us plenty busy dealing with the aftermath of your holiday feast.
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Name that aqueduct.
Ancient Romans are famous for all kinds of architectural and engineering wonders, including the aqueducts, and none is more famous that the Aqueduct of Segovia. It was built somewhere between the end of the 1st and beginning of the 2nd century, and stretched from Segovia in Spain to the outskirts of Sierra de Guadarrama: a total of about 2,950 feet long.
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Who’s the most famous plumber in the world?
Joe the Plumber, you say? Good guess, but wrong answer. Actually, we can give you the names of the TWO most famous plumbers in the world: Super Mario and his brother Luigi, fresh from the Mushroom Kingdom.
- Hmm, what to read next?
It’s said that the average person spends about 3 years of their lives on the toilet. War and Peace, anyone?
- What the heck does “plumber” even mean?
It comes from the Latin word “plumbum,” which means “lead.”
- The things we lose down the toilet.
The items most frequently flushed down the toilet that shouldn’t be vary by sex. Men, for example, most frequently lose wallets, money, and their identification, while women are prone to accidentally flush loose jewelry and accessories.
- What if Albert Einstein had it do all over again?
Funny you should ask, because someone once did. And this was his reply: “If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.”
- Just how old is modern plumbing?
Well, the oldest evidence of “modern” plumbing we could find dates back to 2500 B.C. Egypt and the reign of the pharaoh Cheops. Many years later, archaeologists discovered evident of a water plumbing system inside his tomb.
And now back to the present, and your indoor plumbing. As in, if there’s something not-so-funny going on with your water heater, garbage disposal, one of your faucets, or anything else that water flows through, give us a call here at Norhio Plumbing and we’ll have you smiling again in no time.
