It sucks not to have hot water when it’s just 5 degrees outside, and it’s not fun taking a sponge bath during the dead of a bitter winter. 🥶 But in life, there are real problems and mere inconveniences, and though it really bites big time, this is still the latter. It took a solid 10 days (Yes, 🔟!!!) before that broken part of the boiler got fixed in the building we live in. I really missed hot water and not having it at the touch of a tap. So much so, that I vowed to marry 💍 the man who discovered it.
It was Edwin Ruud, a mechanical engineer from Norway, who invented the first home water heater in 1889; he died in 1932, but that’s not a deal-breaker for me and I can look past that. I’m very particular but nobody’s perfect, and his being dead 💀 is no big deal to me. His old bones are buried in Pittsburgh, a quick trip and a 5 ½ hour drive 🚘 from where I live. We can’t be wed in the traditional sense, but I like to think outside the box. I believe we were meant to be, and I won’t let his death deter me from our destiny. Our love 💙 for hot water can span the sands of time, and in my heart, we are forever betrothed.
Mrs. Lynn Ruud
01 – 15 – 2022