Music to Our Ears

Call Roto-Rooter, that’s the name, and away go troubles down the drain.

Compulsive student that I am of major anniversaries (see below), I only discovered today that I’d missed a Big One a few years back. The Roto-Rooter jingle celebrated its 50th anniversary on May 13, 2004—by my calculation about the time when we had our last Sewer Event until, that is, the one that will be seriously attacked today. (In fact the men arrived just as I typed that last period.) Sometimes music, poetry, and that dreaded real life actually converge.