My husband and I bought our house a year ago. We have been slowly fixing the house up over the year. This past weekend we started to tear out the old landscaping in the front yard. We want something more tropical (we live in Flordia), and there were large overgrown bushes in the front yard. We started pulling up the bushes, and were on a roll. There were two large bushes that flanked the sides of the driveway. The first one was tough. We ended up having to hook a tow rope up to the SUV and pull it out. We did the same thing for the second bush, and it came up with ease. Then I noticed a gusher. When we pulled up the bush, we broke the main water pipe. We could never find the main shut off value to the house. Well now we know why. Some numb nut planted a bush over it some 15 years ago. Do people not think before they do things like this? Just another joy of home ownership :)
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20 years ago