We walked through the kitchen, and he stopped and looked at the radiator. “You know how to keep that from hissing? You need to take yourself a skinny nail and unclog that hole right there. That’s your problem. But don’t do it now because you might burn yourself.” “OK,” I said. “Thanks.” “What you want to do is wait until later, then take a nail, a long, skinny one, and ream out that hole. That’ll solve your problem.” I thanked him again and then took him to the alley, where we saw that the manhole cover had been replaced. While standing there looking at it, I learned that getting a new one had
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