Both Too Strong for Our Own Good

I was trying to get all the towels off the towel rack in the shower so I could wash them. I pulled too many towels too hard and I bent the plastic towel rack to the degree that it came out of the ceramic holders. The holders that are set in the tile wall with motar and grout remained intact.

I put the now freed towels in the laundry basket and tried to replace the rod by putting it in one holder and bending the thick stiff plastic towards the wall. Russ seeing me struggle to do it stepped in to save the day.

He placed the rod in one holder and while holding the ceramic holder at the other end while pushing the rod into the indentation he pulled the ceramic right off the wall. Now instead of not having a rod, we also did not have two holders for the rod.

It never fails that helping makes the problem twice as bad. Now I have to find the right mortar mix it up and get Russ to help me hold the rod in the currently stationary ceramic end while replacing the one he pulled out of the wall.

Life feels like maintenance, maintenance, maintenance.