OMG, WTF?

Did I mention we're building a pool? Oh, well I have been a bit slack. Perhaps more accurately, everything's been going really well up until now. Well, not any more. First the fence people came and put a fence post in the middle of five pipes to the pool. It's absolutely amazing that they had to cut all five of them. By far the easiest thing for everybody involved would have been for them to dig away beside the pipes a little and push the post in between. But that would have taken them a little bit of effort, so instead they cut through them all.

Today the plumber came and reconnected the pipes. And this is how he did it.

That's an electrical conduit going through the middle. I'm surprised they didn't have to cut it too. I suppose they were afraid of it. Notice in particular that two of the pipes now sit above the level that the pavers will go to. And this is right where the gate is. Anyway, the plumber is coming back tomorrow to try again.