CLOGGED SINKS A HOLIDAY TRADITION, SAY PLUMBERS.Byline: Lisa M. Sodders Staff Writer Thanksgiving means food, football, family - and, frequently, a phone call to your friendly neighborhood plumber (programming, tool) Plumber - A system for obtaining information about memory leaks in Ada and C programs. http://home.earthlink.net/~owenomalley/plumber.html. . Thursday and today mark the start of the busiest season of the year for local plumbers, as already slow-running drains finally clog with the addition of a little turkey fat; garbage disposals Noun 1. garbage disposal - a kitchen appliance for disposing of garbage electric pig, disposal kitchen appliance - a home appliance used in preparing food garbage disposal, garbage disposal unit n jam from Uncle Ted's overenthusiastic adj. 1. unduly enthusiastic. Adj. 1. overenthusiastic - unduly enthusiastic enthusiastic - having or showing great excitement and interest; "enthusiastic crowds filled the streets"; "an enthusiastic response"; "was enthusiastic about taking cleanup help; and toilets overflow. ``Thursday (Thanksgiving) is a big day, but people aren't as apt to call,'' said Jeff Garcia
Studio City writer Arthur Ross had dinner plans away from home Thursday, but first, he wanted to get a clogged sink cleared, and he didn't mind calling a plumber on Thanksgiving to get it done. ``There's the beautiful mess,'' Ross said cheerfully to Louis Serrano ser·ra·no n. pl. ser·ra·nos A cultivar of the tropical pepper Capsicum annuum having small, blunt, highly pungent red or green fruit used in cooking. , the Roto-Rooter plumbing supervisor who answered Ross' call Thursday morning. Serrano ran a quarter-inch cable down the sink, and within 10 minutes, he had the clog cleared. ``It usually gets busier at the end of the day - that's when they try to cram the whole salad down the garbage disposal,'' Serrano said. Julio Benavidez, dispatch manager for The Drain Surgeon in Van Nuys, said his plumbers also are kept busy by a few far-sighted far·sight·ed or far-sight·ed adj. 1. Able to see distant objects better than objects at close range; hyperopic. 2. Capable of seeing to a great distance. 3. people who call to have their sewer lines Noun 1. sewer line - a main in a sewage system sewer main main - a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage cleared before their friends and family descend upon them for holiday parties. ``Thanksgiving is usually pretty quiet, because people don't like to pay holiday rates for anything,'' he added. ``Only if it's an absolute emergency - the toilet is overflowing and they have guests over.'' Plumbers will be putting in 12- to 16-hour days over the holidays, so customers might want to be a little more patient than one customer Garcia remembers. ``One Thanksgiving, we got a call at 3 a.m. from a woman in Pasadena who had been doing prep work, washing carrots and celery celery, biennial plant (Apium graveolens) of the family Umbelliferae (parsley family), of wide distribution in the wild state throughout the north temperate Old World and much cultivated also in America. , and the drain backed up,'' Garcia said. ``She called us and told us she didn't care what it would cost. She wasn't going to go to sleep that night.'' ``So the technician showed up at 3:30 a.m. and she started bossing him around, telling him how to do his work,'' Garcia added. ``He put down his gloves and said, 'Go ahead. I'll be in my van.''' Lisa M. Sodders, (818) 713-3663 lisa.sodders(at)dailynews.com |
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