#anyway canadian turkey day is today so i've been at my parent's place this weekend

[safyresky]

Sometimes when I come home for a holiday, it's absolutely RANK vibes and SUCKS and I'm ready to yeet myself into the car and head back home. Other times it's heavily chaotic. This weekend is 100% the latter:

i got in Saturday afternoon

went up to my childhood bedroom

smelt like weed

why weed

YO SIBLINGS, SOMEONE DOING WEED IN MY ROOM?

My Dad pipes up cheerily.

NO IT'S JUST SKUNKS :)

I'm sorry...what?

Oh! We have skunks living under the back deck :)

(my room faces the backyard)

We have. what now?

My Mom pipes up: oh yeah it's BAD. one night we had all the windows open and they sprayed and we almost DIED

okay, cool

so I get in get settled some time passes

My Dad's tidying the kitchen when suddenly there's a deep thunk and he YELLS

SHUT OFF THE WATER TO THE HOUSE!!

man runs like his ass is on fire downstairs to shut off the water

my sister books it upstairs

I go into the kitchen to ask where the shut off valve is

THE KITCHEN CUPBOARD UNDER THE SINK IS A WATERFALL, I SHIT YOU NOT

A PIPE BURST?!?!?!?

I run up to gather towels with my sister, we do our best to cover the floor as the cupboard fills with water and it starts to seep out through the cracks

dad is downstairs shutting the valve, is yelling upstairs FLUSH THE TOILETS, WE NEED TO RELIEVE THE WATER PRESSURE

finally the flow stops, my dad comes upstairs, we open the cupboard

FWOOOSH as a small pond comes out onto the towels

Dad looks at the towel mess

looks at the sink

looks at my sister and i

"that was great response time" he says

"i know, right?" my sister says

"i had a shut off valve up here" he continues

"you had a what now??" i ask

"A shut off valve up here under the sink"

he's been adding valves when we replace water related things

the sink was replaced 4 years ago

we could've had less of a flood

"Well. fight or flight," i say with a shrug

"WHAT'S GOING ON WHAT'S HAPPENING" my mom asks from the living room

PIPE BURST my dad says

"Okay, do I need to go to the hardware store?" i ask

"eh," says my dad, "it could be a 3 minute fix, could be a 3 day fix"

THREE DAY? I exclaim

"yeah, you gotta make it sound good," he says, dragging everything out of the cupboard

i have been home for about an hour and a half at this point