This is the view from inside a storage closet here in the apartment. Even back when we lived here before, this totally random spigot perplexed me. A spigot in a closet? And no drain? Last night it became more than just perplexing.
There was a knock on the door at about 4:00am. It was the downstairs neighbor, who informed us that their storage closet, directly below this one, was flooded. Apparently, when I put our luggage into the closet last night, the spigot handle must have been bumped. But I'm guessing this water line had become dry since it is never used, so no water came out right away. But eventually water did come out.
To add injury to insult (literally), I mildly threw my back out as I hastily yanked the still-loaded bike case out of the closet.
We knew many of the people upstairs in this building, but now we know the downstairs neighbors. They've been very nice about it, though. This is not the first time leak/flood problems have happened. These are old buildings and stuff happens. I recommended to the landlord that the spigot be cut off and capped. If I had only brought my plumbing toolkit (the TSA would have probably not liked the MAPP gas canister), this would be a done deal. But instead we're waiting on a plumber.
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