My hot water heater is broken. Don’t be alarmed - I’m not asking to come over and use your shower yet. I’m just letting you know. The problem is the blasted thing’s got a leak. It’s dripping water into the disgusting copper tray at the bottom, which likes to fill up and spill onto my kitchen floor since the hot water heater is located under the sink. Luckily it’s only a small drip that fills up the tray every day or so, or things would be extremely not that good.

Still I’m waiting for the people who own the place to come and have a look at it, which will probably take weeks and weeks until the thing actually does explode. Dickheads. In the meantime the only thing to do is scoop the disgusting roachy water out with an old glass and pour it down the showerhole. (Did I just invent the word ’showerhole’?) It’s not any fun, but do you think the landlord wants to know about it? Nup.

Let this be a lesson to install your water heater in a position where the anode can be easily changed. Then check the anode regularly (every year or so) using a shifter or a large socket wrench and replace it with a suitable part when it looks really creepy and corroded. Be careful not to strip the thread on the anode when putting it back, or things will turn out even worse than they already are.

Nighty-night :)