Only Poured Water Down My Pants Twice

Whoever installed my kitchen sink was both incompetent and a jerk  

I hate them.  You should too!

Yeah!  Nuts to that guy.  

So anyway...not long ago, it became time to embark on another home improvement project.  This time, the gaskets on the kitchen sink's faucet had begun to degrade, resulting in water pouring out of the faucet long after the handle had been turned off.  This also had the side effect of a delayed start when turning the water on.  Annoying.  Combine this with the fact that the faucet was kinda cheap and ugly-looking, and it was time for a new faucet.

Off to the store we'll refer to as "High's Home Improvement Warehouse"!  

I picked out my new faucet and began the replacement process.  Like most replacement processes, this started with removal of the old faucet.  No problem, right?  Faucets aren't that hard.  They're held together with like 3 or 4 thumb screws and a couple hoses.  I've replaced faucets before with no issues, this will be no different, right?  Right? 

Wrong.

The jerk who installed the kitchen sink and faucet really didn't know what they were doing.  They also apparently lost some of the pieces of the faucet they were installing or decided it would be much more fun to make some of the parts themselves.  Holding the valve in place, rather than the usual thumb screw, was a custom-built metal bracket held on by a thoroughly stripped hex nut tightened down much more torqueily (that's a word now) than necessary around three hoses all cut to the same length in a space much too small to negotiate a wrench.  It was actually to the point where it was easier to disconnect the supply lines and the drainpipe, then lift the entire friggin sink out of the counter to disassemble than it would have been to try to unscrew this thing in place.  A pair of linesman pliers worked on the stripped nut where any wrench would have failed.  Oh yeah...and the fact that the three leader hoses were all custom cut to the same length made it impossible to get the bracket off over the three aligned hose connectors.  A strong pair of work scissors took care of that problem.  Not that anybody would want to, but nobody will ever install that faucet again.  

The new faucet went in place with four screws in about 10 minutes.  If somebody ever wants to replace it, they'll have a much easier time with it than I did.