Title was 3/10 interesting. The twist on your text post was 4/10 interesting. And the end of your tale was 2/10 interesting. That's a little too much interesting for this sub.

My house's water heater broke down! - completely unrelated, and kind of expected. It's been shoddy, and our hot water has been getting cooler for a long while. Not all that noticeably cooler, just a little, you know, like enough to make scalding water not quite feel scalding. Actually, come to think of it, the water heater broke down before I got to 10k karma. Huh. Oh well.

I just got to 10k karma, and you would never guess what happened!