Fuhgedaboutit

I'm beginning to think that the world wide web is full of spiders. Google walk-in tub lawsuits and the slimeworld of predatory retailers targeting old folks opens up on your laptop. We were so dismayed that we started rethinking the whole walk-in tub idea.

The best ones are comparable to buying a new car, and there is no bucks for bathtubs program coming down from the Feds. The cheap ones don't hold water, LITERALLY, plus there is the issue of having to sit in dirty cold water while the thing drains. It can take 5 minutes, more than enough time for hypothermia to set in.

We spent most of the other night on the computer and working the phones just trying to get some sort of idea what would be the best deal for us. Some sites don't even have phone numbers, you have to send an email. Of those we called, most were manned by an answering service. The one salesperson Pat actually spoke with worked hard to get our Visa number right then and there, all the while dissing the other outlets. Afterwards, Pat told me the kid was on a cell phone driving on the Jersey Turnpike.

The next day, Pat called the local plumbing supply place, we went down and picked one out, along with the fixtures, which of course, are also expensive...extra large faucets to get the tub filled during your lifetime and something called a "minute" drain which will empty 60 gallons a minute; a miniature maelstrom in the house. If we bathed our daughter's minpin, Homer may end up swirling down the sewer.

The lesson here- you wouldn't buy a Buick without taking it for a test drive. Don't buy a bathtub you can't fondle in a showroom.