Too many kids in this tub

Too many elbows to scrub

I just washed a behind

That I'm sure wasn't mine

There's too many kids in this tub!

-Shel Silverstein

An ode to one of my favourite poems as the hot water heater gave out this morning.  If the part needed is a special order it could be up to two weeks before we're up in business again.  Obviously worse things have happened and it's not the end of the world...but it is the end of clean hair because this water is not cold it's frigid, and there's no way.  Please don't make me.  No hot water (duh), smelly people, and a since we have those wall radiator things, a very "crisp" (cold) house.  Tammer said something about boiling hot water for a bath like they used to do in Egypt when he was a kid, and my teeth just chattered back at him.  I was not beyond pleading with the repairman and even pulled the, "But sir, I'm from Texas, where you could very well be sweating on Halloween!!! And plus, there's a cold front coming in on Tuesday night, but I already think it's cold outside!!!"  He just looked at me kind of funny, "Sweat?".  Really I'm just dreading wearing a baseball cap for the next few days.  Nothing says you aren't from around here like a baseball cap.