I remember my first attack very clearly. Incredible pain will do that. It kept coming back. After years of mild attacks my Doc prescribed allopurinol. One pill a day. Not had any problem since. Not so much as a hint of pain from gout.
He certainly is the last, the first may be the result of the last. Damn, how could the shower head drip without water coming up to it.
Don’t let the guy touch anything electric.
I had an “electrician” doing some wiring at work. I just happened to be walking by when he got zapped, falling to the ground. He jumped right up, told me he was fine, and went back to work. I asked him if he’d ever had that happen before. He told me it was one of the things that happen maybe once every month or two.
I told my gf’s dad (a retired electrician) about this and he was shocked. He told me he’d never fucked up at work. His proof was that he was alive (he worked in the mill with freaky high voltages).
Saw whatcha did there. 
So they ended up as those green squares?
Note To Self: Avoid the seasonal Hershey’s ‘mint chocolate’ bars…
( Sorry; it’s just that for a 70s Sci-Fi movie, that movie ages way too well. )
Maybe he thinks the shower head contains a magic valve that’s supposed to close when it somehow senses, using the plumbing equivalent of telepathy, that the tap has been shut off. To be fair, his solution would work if he replaced the shower head with a screw-on cap!
I can’t fathom the thought process beyond the idea that whatever you see exhibiting a problem, that thing is the problem. Thus, if this maintenance guy ever has water dripping from his ceiling during a heavy rainstorm, his solution would be to replace the ceiling. Sounds like a handy guy to have around! 
I understand that happens to electricians a lot! 
I had an uncle who was a “contractor” and he wired an outlet (in my late grandma’s house) over a wall-mount oven with zip-cord.
It’s just so stupid and random. I can be resting and barely notice it and then BAM. Intense pain.
Reminds me of shingles in a way.
That’s revolting…!
Benny must’ve stolen that from Thomas Hood’s 19th century poem “No!”.
Excerpt:
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member—
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds,
November!
Allen Lacy in “The Garden in Autumn” used that and at least one other poem in a similar vein to describe the difference in outlook on fall between English and Americans. The Brits, with a higher incidence of dank, cold and gloomy autumn weather tended to be depressed; Americans with more favorable fall climate were often energized.
I woke up one morning and wondered how in the hell I broke my big toe in the middle of the night and not notice it. Was very, very confusing.
Mine either. Unfortunately I only listen to music while driving.
The old adage is “There are old electricians and there are careless electricians, but there are no old, careless electricians.” I worked the trade for a lot of years, and while I took a couple of minor hits, I was very careful about my work. I had one fool sneer at me because I refused to work 220v live. Go right ahead, moron; I’ll notify your next of kin. Now, I’ve worked live circuits when there was no other choice. It requires extreme care and a second person to knock you loose if it grabs you.
Well, sometimes a brain fart gets in the way of good thinking, but twice in a row? He may have been hoping for a quick fix, because he’ll have to shut off water to the apartment in order to work on it, or will have to call in a plumber, which management has to pay for.
I just tried logging in to the rent payment site of my old apartment. It said it couldn’t find my account. I hope this means that they shut it down and will stop trying to charge me further rent.
Are you insinuating Benny Hill stole that poem? Because you can just come right out and say it; everyone knows he lifted material [patting you on top of your bald head].
“Zip cord”, aka “lamp cord”, intended for things like table lamps and not permitted for permanent wiring.
My weird electrical-work story was done by a “professional” electrician when I was doing some renovations in the old former house. Not sure if it violated code but it probably did. I asked to have an outlet installed in the bathroom, and specified that it should be GFCI. It wasn’t, and the contractor brushed it off by saying that the electrician just didn’t happen to have a GFCI outlet with him (not bloody likely!).
Years later, when I was replacing the light switch in the adjacent bedroom with a dimmer, I discovered what the electrician had done. Rather than properly running wiring for the outlet, he jury-rigged it to the wall switch which was conveniently on the wall directly opposite. I’m pretty sure the reason no GFCI was installed was because it wouldn’t have worked.
Yeah 110v. Been hit by that a few times. 220v… Umm no. Power to entire house shut down when working on that.
That chronic toxo infection acting up again, burpo? 
Well, this is good to know, and makes me feel kinda dumb. I have no experience with plumbing but I do have a leaky shower head. It doesn’t drip the whole time, just for a few minutes after use, and the part that drips is the bolt around the snake part that connects to the shower head. It leaks at that connection. I was hoping YouTube could help me.
Not the only complaints: