Big Love

Buy out all the options or go home empty-handed?

I moved recently. Settling in, I discovered that the bath tub was missing a bath plug, and was thus rendered useless. I also came to know this term as a “bathtub drain stopper.” That sounds much better, actually. Needless to say, both my son and sister were disappointed. For the time being, I was surviving ok with a shower.

Eventually I found myself at the local hardware store Ace. After locating the plumbing and bathtub drain stopper offerings (a success of its own in the maze of a store) I realized that I was a bit unprepared, as I did not know the size of the drain of the tub. Sigh.

What to do? In my estimation the drain seemed to be on the small side. This was not very helpful though. The offerings of drain stoppers came in sizes that differentiated by an eighth of an inch. Sigh.

Then I stopped sighing and started laughing at myself as I gleefully put one of each size drain plug into my basket. There were about eight or so, and they were inexpensive. The clerk and I had a good laugh as I checked out.

“Even if you had measured, you probably would have got the wrong size” the clerk shared.

When I got home I found the right size and took a hot bath later that night. Thankyouverymuch.

Author Denise Linn shared in a recent newsletter that sometimes any action is better than inaction. Just get going. Movement beats stagnancy.

In my case, looking for the part in person was step one. Step two is returning the seven plugs I do not need within the 29 days I have to do so. Step three is enjoying the feeling of accomplishment and space that is now freed up in my mental load. Along with appreciation for my abilities to fix this problem that my ex, a contractor, would have done for me.

Was it perfect or how I envisioned it or a one and done? No. Did it work out for the better? Yep. Sometimes it looks like that.