Families R Built with Love

Every morning one of Chet's jobs is to go down cellar and empty our dehumidifier.  We have had a very wet spring and with a stone foundation, seepage is inevitable.  It disappears quickly because the cellar has a dirt floor but I don't want mustiness to remain as there is no real way to ventilate the cellar effectively. Thus the dehumidifier.

This morning Chet came flying upstairs and bursts into the kitchen like his pants are on fire.  "You clogged the sink" he says in a voice that sounds fairly accusatory.  He is directing his comment to my wife.  He continues on to tell her that she must have "washed diapers in the big sink" and explains that he has deduced this because the sink is full of water and there is water on the floor.

Of course, K doesn't appreciate being accused of this, but in reality, Chet wasn't accusing.  His modus operandi is to take anything that is shaking the norm of his world and craft an explanation.  Soapy water overflowing the soak sink must mean that Mom washed something there.  He saw her do a load of diapers yesterday and thus it was diapers.  Doesn't matter that our washer is located in the upstairs bathroom.  I have learned over the years that the explanations he crafts don't have to be reasonable to neuro-typical people. They just have to help him order his world. Because an unordered world is a scary place to him.

I explained it would be better to come up and tell us what he found.  Just to report, and we would all work together to find the cause.  Which sadly enough seems to be a clogged line.  Could be (gulp) tree roots or something like that.  At the moment the toilets don't seem impacted but we are not doing any wash till this is resolved because it was soapy water that K said smelled like our detergent. I have no sense of smell so I am just relying on her here.  But I hope the repair guy comes soon because we easily do 5 loads of wash a day at our house and this will pile up fast!