A month or so ago, I read an article online about some strange shower gadgets that had been designed to let folks know when they’d been in the shower too long and used too much water. One was a shower curtain that starts to inflate and slowly suffocate you. Another was a wall of inflatable cones that will eventually stick out perpendicular to the wall and stab you. Here at Loafkeeper, we had our own version of the eco-friendly shower: one with a hideous whine. It’s hard to dawdle in a shower that goes “eeeeeeeeeeeeeee……………eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee……………eeeeeeeeeeeeeee.” At first we were able to get rid of the whine by wiggling the shower/tub toggle. After a while, that didn’t work. Then whines became more and more frequent. They were at 20 second intervals. Then 14. Then 8. Pretty soon it was like showering inside an ambulance.

Eventually the water pressure throughout the house began to go wonky, and Andy did his research and found out that our well reservoir tank was probably having bladder control issues. I suggested we get it some Depends, but Andy called the reservoir tank dude instead. TankDude came out and made some serious faces and poked the tank and nodded and then replaced the tank with Big Blue.

This morning I almost fell asleep in the shower. Maybe I should get some of those inflatable cones.