Our land line’s been out of commission for more than a week, and it’s become such an afterthought in our lives that it wasn’t until a couple of days ago that I began the process of tracking down the exterior phone jack to see if it’s a phone company problem or an inside wiring issue. I got a dial tone when I plugged the phone in outside (in the middle of a snowstorm), which means we pay for the fix, if we opt to do that. Naturally, this has us drawing up pro/con lists about whether to cut this $30 monthly expense from our lives.
In the meantime, I couldn’t help thinking of how Red Green would solve the problem: He’d run the phone cord through the hole in the window screen and plug it into the exterior phone jack -- no doubt covering it with a Wal-Mart bag or some other attractive material to protect it from the elements.
Speaking of “The Red Green Show,” here’s a web site that celebrates the same kind of hare-brained, duct-tape-oriented fixes:
www.thereifixedit.com.
