Duct Tape Fixes Everything?

We have one of those handheld showerheads in our bathroom. You know the kind, they are attached to a hose, and you can bring the showehead down, or leave it in the bracket. They are supposed to look like this:

Anyway, we've had one for years, and we really like it. It's got different settings so you can have a massaging feature, or a gentle light rain-like feature (which doesn't even begin to get my hair wet; it's like a giant is making raspberries on your head).

I woke my daughter this morning, and she decided that she's going to take a shower before school. My daughter got up to take her shower, and moments later, she came into the computer room with this horrified look on her face. “Mom, can you come in the bathroom”?

I got up to check out the bathroom, expecting to see some sort of gigantic bug or spider lurking. I was wondering why she called me in the bathroom for that because she's usually tough enough to kill bugs herself. I was bracing for a gazillionpede (those super icky bugs that sometimes crawl up through the drain- they are too gross to post a picture). When I got into the bathroom, I started to look for the bug, then my daughter says, “I'm so sorry! I turned on the shower, and water just came squirting out!! Where the shower attaches to the wall is broken, but I didn't know it!”

That's when I noticed that there was water everywhere.

"Okay, let's get the water mopped up, and we'll see what we've got”. I was sort of relieved that I didn't have to banish a gazillionpede.

After cleaning up the water, I looked at the hose that attaches the shower to the pipe, and there was a good sized crack in the hose. That's exactly where the water came gushing from.

So now, it's 6:20, my daughter needs a shower, but I don't want the bathroom drenched; I prefer to keep the water in the tub so it can go down the drain. Hmm, what to do, what to do.

Well, I decided an experiment was in order. Does duct tape indeed fix everything? We were going to find out, at least so my daughter could get her shower in.

"Mom? I'm probably not going to catch my bus”. Her bus comes at 7:04.

I know. We'll try, but I'll take you to school if I have to.

I find a roll of duct tape, cut off a length, and wrap it around the crack in the hose. Timidly, I turn on the shower, expecting to get an accidental shower, but it seems to be okay. 

My daughter took her shower, and I finished my coffee. After her shower, she comes out with the same horrified look on her face. This time, I know it's not because of a bug.

"Mom? Can you come in the bathroom”?

"Uh-oh, what now” I'm thinking.

I went into the bathroom, and there is water down the walls outside of the shower, on the wall above the tub surround, on the ceiling, and on the floor again. There's water more everywhere than the first time there was water everywhere.

"I'm so sorry!! I didn't realize that was happening”!

No biggie. You go get dressed, I'll sop up the water. Do you want breakfast?

"Will I have time”?

Yes, I already said that I'd take you to school if you missed your bus. Do you know what my mom used to make me sometimes?

"No, what”?

An egg sandwich on toast. My mom would scramble a couple of eggs, and then make a sandwich with them. Would you like to try one?

"Yes please”!

While my daughter was eating her breakfast, I ordered a new shower head. While I was watching my son leave to catch his bus, (he walks to a friend's house, then they walk to the bus stop together), I got a text telling me that my order was ready to pick up. The store wasn't even open yet! I was impressed.

So, I'm going to the store in a little while. I hope you all have a great day! I've had my adventure for today, so I'll settle for mundane and quiet for the rest of the day.