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**Endatrybeeddy** · 06-18-2010, 10:34 PM

I was thinking along the same lines. Who is more at fault, the person who can't do something, or the person who can but doesn't?

Was they guy (or gal) running around, waving their arms and calling out "somebody do something"? To be fair, perhaps the valve was too tight for them to turn - or they tried turning it the wrong way?

I didn't drop the F-bomb on them, that was me venting last night because I was beyond pissed.

I did however tell them to turn the water off. I refuse to kneel down in that brown ass water. If I was the one who'd done it I would have been swearing and kneeling down to shut the water off myself because its my responsibility.

As for them not knowing how to shut the water off to the toilet? Who doesn't know how to do that, how is it possible to be so inept that you can't shut it off. Its a single valve visible behind the toilet, very visible. Its an apartment, its laid out the same way mine is. As for not knowing which way to turn the valve let me ask the US people.

Which way do you turn your garden hose to turn the water off? Or for that matter 90% of all rotary valves use clockwise to close a valve. Its the same on toilet valve. Its universal. Its basic.

06-18-2010, 10:34 PM	#8
Endatrybeeddy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 354 Senior Member	I was thinking along the same lines. Who is more at fault, the person who can't do something, or the person who can but doesn't? Was they guy (or gal) running around, waving their arms and calling out "somebody do something"? To be fair, perhaps the valve was too tight for them to turn - or they tried turning it the wrong way? I didn't drop the F-bomb on them, that was me venting last night because I was beyond pissed. I did however tell them to turn the water off. I refuse to kneel down in that brown ass water. If I was the one who'd done it I would have been swearing and kneeling down to shut the water off myself because its my responsibility. As for them not knowing how to shut the water off to the toilet? Who doesn't know how to do that, how is it possible to be so inept that you can't shut it off. Its a single valve visible behind the toilet, very visible. Its an apartment, its laid out the same way mine is. As for not knowing which way to turn the valve let me ask the US people. Which way do you turn your garden hose to turn the water off? Or for that matter 90% of all rotary valves use clockwise to close a valve. Its the same on toilet valve. Its universal. Its basic.
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