Cautionary tale

Cautionary tale ..I like that, heard it in a movie the other day. A couple weeks ago, 17 days to be exact, my neighbor told me he was having his hot water tank replaced. It was 16 years old, and he had his wife bugging him to replace it. He had a friend who was a retired plumber and did him a favor by replacing it for him. I said ask him if he could do mine, as I have been in this house 18 years and the tank was here when we moved in. He asked his friend, but he said sorry, I don't want to get back into the business, and just did my neighbor a favor because they were friends. So I did nothing ! Yep ! .. last night my tank started spewing water out of it. I have half my basement finished and the tank is right next to the door into the finished room and 1/4 of the carpet got wet. Drywall looks alright, thank God. Luckily the water ran towards sump pump right along the wall, so the rest of the basement is dry. Carpet will be a problem but could have been MUCH worse. Told my wife she should have bitched at me like my neighbors wife. :poke:Didn't go over well, nope, not well at all. SO, if you have a tank that's older than your your mother-in-laws hairdo get a new one, ....... tank, not mother-in-law. Words of wisdom for y'all