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Hehe, I got a better one than that:
Our bathroom faucet was dripping a little bit onto the tile floor below it. No biggie, it was a small drip. So one night late, after everyone else was in bed, I go in the bathroom. And I notice that the drip is now a puddle. So I reach under the sink to see if I can feel where the leak is. And the plastic "wingnut" that holds the tubing to the bottom of the faucet goes to pieces when my fingers touch it. So now there is water, HOT water, spraying everywhere in the bathroom. And there are no cutoff valves under the sink. So I go into the bedroom, and have to move the baby bed from in front of the closet door to get to the hot water heater, because surely there's a cutoff there. NOPE. So now there's water running out the bathroom door into the hallway, and down the hallway into the living room. So I'm shaking my husband, "get up, get up!" and he's freaking out, thinks something awful has happened. So I give him a bucket and find the flashlight and go out to the well, thinking "surely there is a cutoff there"---NOPE, it looks like there was one years ago, but all there is now is a broken off knob. So I go running back into the house, water everywhere (luckily we have no carpet in the house). And I'm thoroughly pissed by now. So I go in the bathroom, grab the tubing and bend it in half, and tie it that way with a wire tie. Problem solved.
That was about 2 years ago. The tubing is still tied off under the sink. I haven't wanted to deal with putting a new handle on the cutoff by the well, draining the hot water heater, and redoing the plumbing to include cutoff valves.
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