A small annoyance...Has this happened to you?

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A month ago we had a new roof put on the house. This involved

removing all the old shingles, tar paper and flashing, putting down

new tar-paper, shingles and flashing, and some areas had a special

coating of impregnable rubber.

We've had a considerable many storms up here in the past few days and

we had leakage. My mother found water on the floor of one of the

upstairs closets this morning.

I took a look and determined that it was probably leaking by the

chimney and running down to the lowest point into the ceiling and

told her so. I mentioned to my mother that I didn't think the

contractors had sealed the area around the chimney enough when I had

inspected the roof some time ago, but I didn't mention it to them

because I hoped it would hold.

Dad came home and checked out the leak and said that he thought the

water was coming from a different area of the house entirely. I had,

in fact drew up the designs for that part of the house (it was a

small addition) and did not think there could possibly be a leak

there. In my head, I could see all the rafters of the house and re-

asserted to him that I thought it was leaking around the chimney.

I pointed out that shape of the roof and how unlikely it was that his

idea was correct as well.

He called the contractor back who looked at it and said it was the

chimney. My father told my mother and then my mother told me. I

said, " Yep, that was what I said all along. "

She said " Did you? I don't remember you saying that. "

This happens to me all the time. I am right about something, but no

one remembers me saying it. But when someone ELSE is right, they

usually remember THEM saying it.

Does that every happen to you? "

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