As I mentioned in a previous post, since I became a homeowner, I have had occasion to learn quite a bit about home repair as things (a) broke and needed fixing, or (b) as I decided to add things. This weekend involved the intersection of (a) and (b) as the result of some bad luck.
Yesterday, near the end of my shower, one of my feet hit a slippery spot, and I started going down. I tried valiantly to right myself, to no avail. Trying desperately not to become one of those statistics insurance salesmen always talk about (“more accidents in the shower,” yadda yadda), I grabbed for the only thing I could get my hands on to break my fall — the shower curtain. Which was (operative word being “was”) hanging from the shower rod I described installing in the above-mentioned previous blog post. It did slow my fall a bit — I fell ass-backwards out of the shower, and I’m convinced that I’d have hit my head harder on the toilet than I did if not for that curtain. Sadly, I took the shower curtain rod with me. Which left some rather ugly-looking holes in the wall.
Now, I realize I was damn lucky. And after I managed to convince myself that I was alive, and that it could have been much worse, I realized I had another new home repair project on my hands. Yesterday and today were spent patching and painting drywall, which I managed to handle reasonably well for an amateur. I’m hesitant to tell my dad about this, however, because I will have to admit that I put to work some things I learned observing his mad home improvement skills when I was a kid, and I’m not looking forward to the gloating and “told you so”s.
Anyway, a couple pieces of fiberglass, a couple of coats of patching compound and sanding, and a coat of paint later, and you almost can’t tell anything happened, except for the missing shower rod. Which goes back up tomorrow after the paint dries.
Now if only I could repair my sore neck and wounded pride …
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