Summary: One night, my husband came home with an announcement: he’d adopted a drain. I paused before reacting. Well, this is something, I thought. Large businesses and wealthy people adopt schools. Suburban dwellers adopt trees. If we lived in a house in the East Bay, my husband might come home one night and tell me he’d adopted a pet. But we live in multifamily housing in San Francisco. Under these circumstances, a drain is probably the best we can do.
