Recently the drains in my bathroom bust. It was disgusting, there was smelly sewage water everywhere, even dripping from the roof and spurting out of the wall, and none of us knew why or where it was coming from. When we called up to find companies who repair blocked drains, Melbourne CBD area, the guy that came over appeared equally baffled. I asked him what the heck was going on and he just made a hmm sound and looked at the wall so I thought he probably had no clue and that was not a good sign – I mean, a specialist being unable to detect what’s going on. But then he whipped out this thing which looked a bit like a selfie stick but was actually for drain camera inspections. He pushed it into the drain as I watched on with fascination. I felt a bit like a peeping tom, looking into a forbidden world. It was both fascinating and slightly stimulating. That’s when it occurred to me that I could do a lot more with that drain camera.
My mind was reeling, trying to figure out how to I could get my hands on one of those things. I figures that companies that do drain repair around Melbourne must buy a lot of these things, so surely they’d have whole catalogues full of them.But how could I get my hands on them? They’d be distributed by industrial retailers, not for public consumers. Then my mind started wandering into darker territory, like how I could distract the drain repair man with a cup of coffee while I nicked his camera. But he was busy with the drain and I didn’t want to wait another day for that filthy leaking bathroom to be fixed, so I let him get on with it. I’ll have to call them back over next time and work out how to get my own drain camera.