Quote: Originally Posted by katred
Ugh. It started raining in our apartment yesterday. Somehow, the caulking has come loose from the balcony directly over our living room window and now water has started dripping in when it rains. Had the landlord and superintendent here this morning, so hopefully the problem is getting fixed (kind of hard to tell, since the work would have to be done in the place upstairs). I guess I'll know when it starts raining again.
Kate, I apologize in advance for laughing at this. When I read your post my first thought was a song on a cassette when that my kids loved. It was silly songs. There was on that I thought the title was "Little Old Man From Arkansas" but looking it up I think it is "Arkansas Traverler" It probably only makes sense if I post the whole song. We used to hear this whole tape over and over while traveling so these songs at least parts of them gets lodged in your brain forever. My hubby and I often repeat that last line when someone talks about a leak especially in the roof. Ok couldn't resist my brain is getting a bit stupid and silly at 2:45AM.
Oh, once upon a time in Arkansas,
An old man sat in his little cabin door
And fiddled at a tune that he liked to hear,
A jolly old tune that he played by ear.
It was raining hard, but the fiddler didn't care,
He sawed away at the popular air,
Tho' his rooftree leaked like a waterfall,
That didn't seem to bother the man at all.
A traveler was riding by that day,
And stopped to hear him a-practicing away;
The cabin was a-float and his feet were wet,
But still the old man didn't seem to fret.
So the stranger said "Now the way it seems to me,
You'd better mend your roof," said he.
But the old man said as he played away,
"I couldn't mend it now, it's a rainy day."
The traveler replied, "That's all quite true,
But this, I think, is the thing to do;
Get busy on a day that is fair and bright,
Then patch the old roof till it's good and tight."
But the old man kept on a-playing at his reel,
And tapped the ground with his leathery heel.
"Get along," said he, "for you give me a pain;
My cabin never leaks when it doesn't rain."