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Re: [OM] IMG: Les Feux d'Alice

Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Les Feux d'Alice
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 05:37:21 +0100
Very good, Chuck!  Aren't children great?

Chris

On 3 Jul 2012, at 21:05, Chuck Norcutt wrote:

> On a semi-related note I remember him as a 5 year old.  We lived at the 
> base of a high hill.  When the spring thaw came the ground water level 
> would rise dramatically and my sump pump would start running non-stop 
> for the next several weeks.  Of course, one year the impeller shaft 
> broke.  But the time I discovered the problem and came back from the 
> hardware store with a new pump I found him in the basement in high boots 
> and about 6" of water.  He had gotten his boats from the bathtub and was 
> playing with them in the lake in the basement.  It took him a while to 
> realize what was going on but eventually he realized that the new pump 
> was lowering the water level.  At that point he yelled: "Daddy, daddy, 
> don't let the water out!"  :-)

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