Some days start normally. And others - with a valve that no one knows. And if no one knows, that means one thing: Zdzichu once put it on "just in case". Just why... and to what...?

- Frank, what is that pipe sticking out of the floor in the decanting chamber?
- I don't know, Zdzichu. But it's been bubbling like flapjacks since this morning.
- And the valve is new? Because it looks like an old one, but shines like new.
- How about... yours?

- I'm the only one capable of installing a valve for anything. But it was an IMPORTANT valve. At the time I mounted it, it made sense.

I scratched my head. I grabbed the key 32. Because always, when you don't know what to do, the key 32 will do something. At least that's what old Bolek from the switchboard claimed, and he was right until he disappeared into the cesspool during the inventory.

🌀 Operation: bolt without a target.

We started to rotate. Carefully. And then carelessly, because we were in a hurry - the alarm from the settling tank rang in a disco-polo rhythm. Inside the valve... nothing. Air. Remnants of bubble wrap. And a screw. One. A loose one.

- A screw? But without the thread? - Yes. And it doesn't fit into anything. - Zdzichu, maybe it was a valve-bait? To draw attention away from the REAL valve?

Then the manager came in. He looked, thought, turned pale.

- This valve is on the 2003 installation plan... as a "backup emergency bypass to bypass." - Well, that's right! I knew it was needed! - But after the 2010 renovation he no longer leads anywhere.

Then Frank and I looked at each other and in that one moment we knew that we had touched history. And it's one that doesn't get documented, because it's a shame.

⚠️ Moral of the Valve

Every valve you don't understand is a potential test of your courage. And every screw without a function - a reminder that nothing dies in the treatment plant. It just changes form. Sometimes to an ironic one.

- Zdzichu, what do we do with this valve?
- We put on a sticker: "Do not touch - strategic project".

☕ Buy Zdzich a coffee!

If you also once fixed something that no one understands - buy Zdzich a coffee. Maybe it will make him remember what the valve was for: