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    The carrots caused a chain of events that led to $10,000 in renovations. After washing dirty carrots down the kitchen sink, the drain became clogged with dirt. Attempts to fix the drain caused water damage that ruined the refrigerator, wall, and floor. A plumber had to remove part of the floor to find the dirt clog. In the end, a new kitchen was needed.

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    The carrots caused a chain of events that led to $10,000 in renovations. After washing dirty carrots down the kitchen sink, the drain became clogged with dirt. Attempts to fix the drain caused water damage that ruined the refrigerator, wall, and floor. A plumber had to remove part of the floor to find the dirt clog. In the end, a new kitchen was needed.

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    The carrots caused a chain of events that led to $10,000 in renovations. After washing dirty carrots down the kitchen sink, the drain became clogged with dirt. Attempts to fix the drain caused water damage that ruined the refrigerator, wall, and floor. A plumber had to remove part of the floor to find the dirt clog. In the end, a new kitchen was needed.

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    From Carrots to Renovations: How I Spent $10,000 without Really Trying

    Do you believe that a kilogram of carrots could cost $10,000? My carrots cost
    me that much last year. Last summer I had to completely renovate my kitchen and
    it was all because of a bunch of carrots. The story begins with my picking twelve
    carrots from my vegetable garden and ends with my getting a new kitchen.

    I have a vegetable garden and every summer I enjoy eating my own vegetables.
    One day last summer I picked a dozen carrots. Usually, as soon as I have picked
    the carrots, I clean the dirt off them by rinsing them in a bucket of water. I keep a
    full bucket of water beside the garden just for this purpose. But this day, as I was
    getting up from the ground with my twelve carrots, I tripped and fell over the
    bucket. The water spilled out of the bucket and went all over my feet. I ran into the
    house to change my shoes and socks. When I was finally dry and clean, I realized
    that I had very little time to make dinner. The carrots were part of dinner, so I
    decided to wash the carrots quickly in the kitchen sink. The carrots were covered in
    a large amount of dirt from the garden. I put the carrots in the sink, rinsed them
    with water, and watched all the dirt wash away down the drain.

    The next day, when I was washing dishes, I noticed that the water drained out of
    the sink much more slowly than usual. It drained so slowly that I went to the store
    and bought a bottle of special drain cleaner. I used the drain cleaner and the water
    seemed to drain a little faster. However, the following day the drain worked even
    more slowly. I spent $100 on different kinds of drain cleaner. None of them
    worked.

    Soon the water did not drain at all. At this point I called a plumber to
    come and fix my drain. The plumber tried a lot of different cleaners and
    equipment, but nothing worked. He tried to go under the house to check the pipes,
    but he couldn't reach them. He had to cut a hole in the floor where the drain pipe
    was in order to try to find the problem. While he was cutting the small hole, he
    accidentally cut the hot-water pipe. Hot water sprayed over the plumber, onto the
    floor, behind the counters, under the refrigerator; water went everywhere. Two
    hours later we finally finished cleaning up all the water. But the water had caused a
    lot of damage.

    My refrigerator stopped working because the water had affected the electrical
    wires. I called an electrician to come and fix the refrigerator. The electrician had to
    move the refrigerator to work on the wires. In order to move the refrigerator, she
    had to balance it on an angle and pull it away from the wall. As the electrician was
    balancing it, she tripped over the plumber's tools. She fell down and the
    refrigerator tipped over. It crashed into the wall, resulting in a huge hole in the
    wall.

    I called a carpenter to come and fix the wall. In order to repair the hole in the
    wall, the carpenter had to tear down half of the entire wall. When the wall was half
    gone, the electrician found more electrical problems caused by the water damage.
    This resulted in the other half of the wall being removed to replace the damaged
    wiring. Meanwhile, the plumber was still looking for the source of the drain
    problem. Since the kitchen was in a terrible mess anyway, the plumber decided to
    remove part of the floor to look at the pipe there. In the middle of the floor, he
    found the problem: the dirt from the carrots was stuck in the pipe and nothing
    could go through or past the clump of dirt.

    Now I had a sink that did not drain, a refrigerator that did not work, a wall that
    was gone, and part of a floor that was missing. I looked at this disaster and decided
    that what I really needed was a new kitchen. Finally, I called a house builder to
    come and fix my kitchen. Three weeks later I had a new sink, a new refrigerator,
    new cupboards on a new wall, new tiles on a new floor, and $10,000 less in my
    bank. I have learned my lesson, I never wash carrots in the kitchen sink; I get them,
    clean and ready to eat, from the store.

    1. How did a kilogram of carrots cost $10,000?

    A. the kitchen needed a more modern look


    B. the dirt from the carrots blocked the drain which led to other problems
    C. carrots can be very expensive
    D. the carrots caused water to spill everywhere

    2. Which of the following is not a reason why the carrots were washed in the
    sink and not in the bucket.
    A. the bucket of water fell over
    B. dinner needed to be made soon
    C. the carrots were always washed in the kitchen sink
    D. the carrots were dirty because they were fresh from the garden

    3. Which of the following steps were taken to make the sink drain more
    quickly.

    A. $10,000 was spent to repair the sink


    B. a plumber came to repair the drain
    C. $100 was spent on different kinds of drain cleaners
    D. a new sink and drain pipe were installed

    4. What caused the most damage to the kitchen?

    A. the drain
    B. the plumber
    C. the water damage
    D. the electrical problem

    5. Which of the following items was not damaged?

    A. the wall
    B. the hot water pipe
    C. the oven
    D. the floor

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