Thankful for Small Favors or Just Dumb Luck

Last night Claire (3) decided to turn the hot water on in her bathroom, full blast, plug the sink, and go to bed.  Now, of course, caused overflow and then flooding down to the main floor and then the basement.  At first I was furious and frustrated and worried about damage but once it was cleaned up I started thinking about how much worse it could have been.  Normally, Jade and I go to the basement and watch a movie or TV.  This day, however, I received (from amazon) a book I have been waiting for since last year.  So instead of being in the basement, I was on the main floor where I heard the dripping from the ceiling into the laundry room right away.  This was also lucky because I had the radio on earlier.  The only reason it was off was because it was too laud and I couldn't hear what Jade was saying.  Instead of turning it down, he turned it off.  Later, my book was so good, I didn't even want to get up and turn it back on.  Otherwise, I wouldn't have heard the dripping.  If I look back even further...I saw the book I was waiting for at the grocery store on Monday.  MONDAY.  It was not supposed to be out until Tuesday.  Someone at the grocery store made a mistake.  If I had not pre-ordered the book and known it was too late to cancel, I would have bought the book Monday and been done by Tuesday and we would be back in the basement with a loud movie.  One other possibility was if I hadn't been to lazy on Monday to go to the basement and get our last netflix movie to put in the mailbox, we would have had a new movie to watch last night.  I like to make my book last as long as I can so if we had a new movie, I would have watched and we never would have caught the leak about 20 minutes after it started. 
It remains to be seen just how much damage there will be but at worst, a few spots of drywall will have to be replaced.  And luckily we are experts at replacing drywall.  The water only went into the laundry, bathroom, and the only room in the basement that isn't finished.  We got really lucky and I need to remember that while I spend hours sucking water out of the carpet with a SpotBot.