The Lesson

There are few things I hate more than painting inside or outside my house. One of them is installing toilets. Yes, I know they have people that can do that. For example, Lowe’s offers installation service for my $200 toilet: $500.  I opted to do it myself. The problem: we’re replacing three toilets. The first took about three hours. With lessons learned, I expected the next to take about an hour. The lessons learned? Apparently forgotten for #2 (not a bathroom pun.) I made the same mistakes and had to remove the bowl four times. But still improved my time to two hours. Only one more to go? Will I have learned my lesson? Or is the lesson “never again?” I fear the answer will be “no.”