OK, one more on "Sam", but a DIY story, not cars. Sam came to work one day saying that the drain in his little wet bar sink in his basement rec room was plugged, wondering, "How to fix??" One of the guys explained to Sam that he had successfully used a garden hose with a rag to seal around the nozzle to "blast the clog free" - "Pull your garden hose into the basement, wrap the rag around the end and push it into the sink drain tightly while you have someone turn the water on full blast to build up pressure. Should blast the clog free real quick." Should work OK, and I must admit I've used that method myself a couple of times when the "plumber's helper" wouldn't do the job.

So Saturday Sam strings the hose in, gets it in place and calls to his wife to turn the water on, but not wanting to take a chance he says, "Turn it on, but not too much!" After a few minutes he can hear and feel that the water is still running - no pressure buildup - so he calls for her, "Turn off the water." Now that slow flow of water had simply filled his vent pipe more than three stories high and he had water running down the roof, into the gutter! So when Sam pulled the hose he had a geyser of water shooting up from the drain about three feet high, and I guess he was using both hands trying to stop the flow and got totally drenched!

Sam had us rolling on the floor laughing with him Monday morning as he re-enacted the geyser scene. One of the guys felt compelled to follow Sam home that night with a plunger and drain snake to help him unclog his drain