Death By a Thousand Cuts

[glatt]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

The aerator in the sink is missing

I'll take this one at random. All of them are wtf, but I can't really understand this. Let's say a bunch of sandy grit gets in the aerator and blocks the flow a little bit. That's the only reason to remove an aerator. So she reaches for a wrench and pulls the aerator off. This is a fair amount of work. You have to go find a wrench. You have to figure out which way to turn the aerator, and it's confusing because it's upside down and you have to turn it the wrong way. After successfully going through all that trouble, the next step of cleaning the grit out of the aerator is so effortless, why would you set the aerator aside where it would get lost? A faucet without an aerator splatters water all over the place. I'd rather have restricted flow than that splatter. I just don't see how you could get into that situation and stay there.

I mean, it's only an aerator, but wtf?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by glatt

After successfully going through all that trouble, the next step of cleaning the grit out of the aerator is so effortless, why would you set the aerator aside where it would get lost?

Nope, the next step in death to the offender, bam, right in the trash. No though to, or understanding of, future consequences. Goes with the illness.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by glatt

...That's the only reason to remove an aerator...

Au contraire, mon frere!

There are times, my good man, when one wishes to indulge in a certain activity, a rite, if you will, where one requires a bowl of fine herb to burned, with the resulting gasses/fumes/vapors to be inhaled, and held until one's mind is, once again, at ease, and then, exhaled.

Occasionally, the pipe needs a new screen.