A great way to spend Saturday evening

Working in the BasementWe've considered putting a plumber on retainer. Once again on a Saturday evening the plumbing starts to back up. In comes the plumber and clears out the pipe. He thinks something is crushing the pipe out by the alley. Diagnosis, it will need to be replaced by spring. Currently it is cheeper to clean the pipe than replace it. Perhaps I should have been a plumber.