Ever have one of those days?

It's been one of those days...

I thought I'd fill the pop machine at work today... so I loaded up my cart and headed to the 2nd floor prior to everyone's arrival at 8. As I filled the rootbeer "column," cans rolled out onto the floor due to a misplaced can in the first slot. I unloaded them all and started over... this time one slipped and I heard the dreaded "pssssssst!" as it cracked open a tiny bit. Rootbeer spray! I had to unload the column again to find the culprit. And then unload them completely to wipe up the mess.

As I was working on this fiasco, a co-worker came in to start coffee. She got the pot brewing and chatted with me while helping me with the mess I had created. We turned around to see the coffee pot overflowing EVERYWHERE. We had to empty the cabinet, sop up a "bucket o'coffee" with a roll and a half of paper towel. Clean off all the little froo-froos that go with coffee, wipe everything down... get all the drips off the cabinet and floor mat...

As I locked up the pop machine, I found TWO cans of soda on the floor. I had to open up the beast again and placed them in their appropriate places, and off to work I went.

But not so fast.

I barely sat down at my desk when the phone rang. A panicked voice saying, "We have a major leak coming out of the ceiling on 2nd floor." I grabbed a trash can and my keys and headed upstairs. As I left my office, I could hear the phone ringing off the hook. (Sigh)

Yup! MAJOR leak! It was Niagara Falls in the hallway! The ladies on 2nd floor had assembled 12-14 trash cans to catch the water. They were emptying them out as fast as they could. I took off looking around for the main water shut off for the building! You'd think being the building manager, I'd know exactly where that was. I figured it out, but not before ceiling tiles soaked and everyone got into a frenzy! (I know now and had the plumber give me a lesson on which levers were which - I'm prepared for the next disaster)

Water shut off in the building means NO RESTROOMS. Of course today was a meeting with all the top dogs... um, Heads of the Church here. Being bathroomless on such a day was not a good thing. They ended up packing up all their files and folders and moved their meeting to a church about 12 miles away. A church with working restrooms.

Staff left behind was beside themselves with "WHAT TO DO" if we need a restroom! Our office is across the street from a video store, which is next to a Burger King, which is a block from a McDonalds. Do we need to call a meeting to figure this out?

One person actually came to ask me how long the building would stay open without restrooms. My response... "SERIOUSLY?" She nodded.. me: "Seriously?"

All of this happened before 9 a.m. this morning.

HVAC guy was here (not his problem) and the plumber finally showed up around 11. A cast iron drain pipe had ruptured and is fixed. I think...

My phone just rang (2:54 p.m.): "Katie, there's water on the floor in the 3rd floor ladies room."

..................let me go home, please!