We had to have our drains unblocked today. I deliberately didn't choose the firm with the highlighter pink vans, as I wanted to be a tad discreet about it. When the man eventually turned up, he parked right across my neighbour's drive, causing them to keep peering through the kitchen blinds to see what was going on. He then opened up the manhole just as a large crowd of local kids were playing near the end of our drive - which was like a lit candle to a bunch of moths. Cue an excitable crowd and a loud chorus of "PEW!!!!!" and "UUURGH!!!" and "Gross!!!" and a whole bunch of kids peering down the hole like it was the Grand Canyon or something. Discretion be damned.... should have sold tickets for it. Rollup, roll up for Doctor Donger's Pit of Unimaginable Horror.