Common Sense

Although she isn't moving in for a few weeks, Ms. Robin had a couple of concerns about the home. She didn't voice them with me. Instead, she wrote to Carolsue. The biggest of these issues was the garage door was apparently broken where "someone" tried to lift it up. The other one was much more minor: a leaky exterior faucet.

Upon recieving Ms. Robin's e-mail, Carolsue was floored. She had just spent several hours at the house and returned to her home less than an hour earlier to this bit of news. What broken garage door? What faucet?

A bit unnerved, Carolsue drove back over to Wayward's former home/Ms. Robin's soon to be home, to find these two issues. Sure enough, the garage door was open about two feet and would not come back down. The exterior faucet, was indeed dripping. But, the faucet was in the back of the house. Ms. Robin would only know it was leaking (because it wasn't originally) if she had been nosing around.

Carolsue, not sure what do do about the garage door, asked me what I thought. She said if someone wanted to lift it, it would probably break again. Her solution was to permanently nail it shut so that it wouldn't be broken next time someone pried it open.

I have a better solution. It seems to me, if Ms. Robin doesn't want the garage door broken, perhaps she shouldn't pry it up to sneak in the home. Just like if she doesn't want a draft, it might be best not to break a window.