There are some stories that language prevents the telling thereof. It’s not naughty words; it’s words for common things that are used in one country and not in another. Sometimes a reader in some distant land will think a story involves butterfly caterpillars when in fact it’s about tractors.
Such was the case when Delphine’s hot water cylinder exploded. A hot water cylinder is variously known as a hot water storage tank, a hot water tank, a thermal storage tank, a hot water thermal storage unit, a heat storage tank, and possibly by a dozen other names.
Anyway, Delphine’s hot water cylinder exploded and what a mess it caused!
When Delphine had purchased her house a good forty years earlier the house was already ancient. Goodness knows how old the hot water cylinder was. Friends had said for her to change it because it was old, it lost heat, and it was highly inefficient. Delphine pointed out that the hot water cylinder’s cupboard was perfectly wonderful for airing damp clothes and for keeping laundry dry. It’s why it was called a hot water laundry cupboard or airing cupboard silly.
Now it had exploded and what a mess it had caused. First it went thump thumb thump. Delphine pricked up her ears. What was that noise? The thumping got lounder. Delphine went to investigate. That’s when things exploded and what a mess it caused.
The funeral for Delphine’s remaining bits is next Wednesday.
Weave a Web 
She found herself in hot water.
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She waded in where angels fear to tread (if I may mix metaphors).
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Seconds after I wrote what I thought a vanguard comment, I noticed you aptly titled this ‘In Hot Water’. Not so vanguard on my part..very un-Vanguard. Very stupid lol
Speaking of stupid, Colombia is most likely to elect today for President someone who was a socialist warfighter in the trenches and jailed for his actions.
Where is the Grand Reset not happening? I was watching my Tigers just a week ago penalised for raising their arms during play remonstrating an Umpire’s decision. The physical act of raising your arms is now a 50 metre penalty.
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Colombia i’s going the way of Venezuela. These days I raise my arms only to apply deodorant.
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Well, we have a good portion of them here due to the Venezuelan Crises.
People don’t seem to understand or want to learn about history or even recent history. (Thanks to the Unversities and their radical left professors indoctrinating the susceptible young)
If someone says he will cure the illnesses of the impoverished and spread the wealth – they vote for him. Same happened in Venezuela. Expropriate busineses ala Ukraine 1920s, Venezuela 2000s and suddenly everyone will be ok because they will distribute funds accordingly.
I ran out of spray deodorant this morning and turned to the thingy which injects armpit juice. Maybe I need to replace it with nothing (as sponsored by the Government) since that is where this country is headed.
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Always wanted to go out with a bang.
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I hope you signed that Wisconsin thing that people said was illegal when it came to those ballot box thingies… anyway, whatever, it doesn’t matter, but I would have signed if it was me but I’m not a Wisconsonite so it’s really none of my business……
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It’s a good case, and I’m glad it’s going to court. But nobody asked me to sign anything, so I didn’t.
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Well, now Delphine won’t have to worry about what people say anymore.
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That is indeed true. The remaining bits of he would agree.
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How very true! Part of the funeral was tended to by the exploding cylinder, or what ever name it is given in different parts of the planet.
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Exploding cylinders are always nosing their way into funerals.
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Strange thing is, I’ve never met a Delphine that I didn’t like. No, wait… Strange thing is, I’ve never met a Delphine.
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I got the name out of yesterday’s paper’s death announcements (which is where 90% of these stories names come from). I’ve never (mercifully) met (or known of) a Delphine either.
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I think I’d like to – probably a live one rather than a dead one though
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I taught a Delphin without the e but he was French and used the obsolete pronoun of “he”.
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Oh how I miss gender specific pronouns
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A pronoun test-tickles.
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You wouldn’t want to fail that one
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Can’t really top the previous comments! But there’s a moral to the story – replace everything when you buy an old house!
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The previous owners left grandma’s ashes buried in the garden so we replaced them with our own (grandma).
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Now THAT’s a replacement!
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I’ve wanted to replace our hot water heater since we moved into this house because it’s terribly inconsistent and I’m tired of occasionally taking tepid showers. Now I’m afraid I might explode. Suddenly the project has moved up the list.
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I’ve never heard of a hot water tank exploding but I’ve just got up at three a.m. because ours seems to be going clank clank clank – even though we turned it off last night. So don’t know what’s going on.
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