drudgery

 

My Faucet for the economically-disadvantaged (it was only $200) is basically a hose attached to a sprayer,
Enclosed in a lookalike trendy plastic package.
Looks great, for a while.
Well, now the hose leaks.
Somewhere, in the mess they're about to dump, is a faucet, a standard-issue with no hose that I replaced because I could not reach the sprayer.
So...I'll use a glass to drink water, IDK.

A rant about how transitory kitchen faucets are, how fragile.
If it was a current model, parts might be available.

10 minutes later...

I'll live with the leak? It isn't so bad.
A new faucet on sale looks like this typical review 

I'm not who I was, and I'd pay someone to install the whatever, except he'd hate it and install it wrong, break something and leave. There's the official guy but he only does really big plumbing stuff (IOW I could not afford him)

I forgot tariffs and supply chains,,,,,mostly gone are two handle faucets,
And plumbers for hovels buy the 39.00 brand anyway,
And vendors happily charge an enormous amount for gold-colors.
(uhm)

Pull-out (ditch the soap) vs pull DOWN (plastic-encased hoses)
I'm no plumber but there's tons of flim-flammery here.
But no matter, *will it leak*?
Does it need some &^%$ adapter?
Is it even legal (flow control)?

It must spit holy waters (holy *something*)

mac-n-cheese "meh" model everyone sort of lives with

The logic I'm about to present is highly controversial so,...there.

OK the parts are not replaceable, no matter what they say. IDK-Y.
The biggie companies trash the designs after a few months (and they all look alike)
We don't know (OK *I* don't know) where snobby companies send their assemblage to (the thirdiest-world?) so (in short) there is no reason to buy yet another plastic POS from a household name that went bad in the past.

So.
No-name brands: Which one (can you trust?)

You can't.

window-shopping darling of the no-name set.
(They make nice web pages)

There's an odd thing with the pricing and the descriptions.
Well, here, you judge:

"Gold" is cheaper and says nothing about plastic (in next pic)

Standard is mostly plastic.
OK, sure (but I really like the gold!!)

calcium carbonate (scale) will eat the thing up anyway.

Insensitive guests (Like kids, old duffers) might grab that delicate gooseneck for whatever reason

(balance, or to test durability) but barring them, You already know it's cheap, and you'll be extra careful.
70*2 (or three) beats $250*2, every couple years.

Since I won't actually be *buying* today, the sword of damocles being what it is,

I might look back on this with regret. I've got another faucet laying on the floor, I might not live here anymore,

and prices could soar...

Relevant to nothing much, the water pressure in this place is much too high lately.
Kind of pisses off pipes.
"Much too high" is subjective, they prolly just open the valve 100%, but....

I will have more maybe later.
Those old movies about people in war desperately waiting for passage to somewhere,

living out of a suitcase, are on my mind. 
I'm playing the "What can I live without?" game.
Diabetic Supplies, "D.M.E. ," meters, chargers, the phone, the electric kettle, *the microwave,*
My beloved TV's
My laundry!

Disjointed rant follows (I'm hungry)

sounds great until you read the ingredients.

"Any old oil we could find" Mayonnaise

Conservative moms bought "Miracle whip" when I was a kid. It wasn't mayonnaise, but apparently conservative kids liked it. Ersatz mayonnaise.

skip to now.

You might wonder why my grocery bills are so high, even though canola oil is cheap (and corn-oil too)
It's because they have to stick soybean oil into everything.
The richer-than-god mayonnaise doesn't, but they substitute expensive oil instead.

I don't trust myself to make my own mayonnaise, so I've acquiesced to the high priced brands.
But a guy can hope that ONE day they'll get a clue.

"No proven link"

2nd rant (waiting for my salad to get here)

I should lay out like some great beached whale and let them eat me?
I honestly do not know why Admiral hates me.

I'll assume it's my router and my Edge browser being prudent, which pisses off powers.
O. My "Hosts" file blocks everything (well done, good and faithful hosts file. 
You're fired)