Dr. Steven Novella

That's the bottom line.

Because it was a day before the plumber got there, you know?

Oh, man, man.

And how much did the plumber charge you?

I haven't gotten the bill yet, but it was definitely weekend holiday pricing.

They love that.

You get a big bill.

later well it's a longer story because the the um the pump house also was broken so we had to come out for two reasons and that pump house serves me and my neighbor so we were both and he's the neighbor's plumber because he's been there longer and it was his plumber so like yeah while you're here fix our toilet kind of thing but okay but we had to pay the whole vig for the weekend thing because that was the only reason why they were coming out on the weekend um

But what are you going to do?

It happens.

Real life happens.

What are you going to do?

And what happened was the plastic flush mechanism cracked.

And, you know, it's plastic.

And he said, yeah, a little water.

He goes, here's your problem.

A little bit of water was left in there.

So when you winterize it, when you prepare your cabin for the winter, you've got to get every drop of water out of every pipe, right?

So you close every valve, you drain everything, and then you've got to pour gallons of antifreeze down every pipe to make sure there's no water.

Because any water left behind freezes, expands, and breaks whatever it's in.