When I owned an old house - a
really old house - I had many a chance to wish a curse on some of the house's
Previous
Owners.
PO is a sort of a curse word among those whose houses were built before the War (as for the great, formerly white elephant on the edge of the prairie, that would be the Spanish-American War). What did the do this time? Well, there
was a hose bib at the back of the house, but the PO built a deck there, with the hose bib still in place under the floor. you could just barely reach it though a basement window without dislocating a shoulder, but it was the only place to can attach a hose that would reach the garden! Hmmmm: a quandary.
