My wife woke me up at 3:00 am Wednesday morning, with the words, “The refridgerator is hissing and there’s water on the floor. Is it supposed to do that?”

Leaping out of bed, I ran to the kitchen and began pulled the fridge out. What I saw was that a pinhole had appeared in the water line from the floor that goes into the ‘fridge for the icemaker, and water was hissing out. So, I jumped into some jeans and ran out to the street with my trusty watermain cutoff wrench and killed the water to the house. Once I took my son to his classes at Southwest, I went to Lowe’s and obtained the needed parts and fixed it with no problem. So, other than the urgency of having to cut the water off, I guess I can call it an emergency, but one that was easily fixed.

Let’s hope that something like this doesn’t happen again when I’m on the job. My wife is not mechanically inclined, and would not be able to handle things like this by herself.