Patrick Berny Vs. The City of Fremont

If you know Patrick, you know that he is a very easy going, good hearted man. If you really know Patrick, I mean, if you really, really know him, you know that he is quite complex, stubborn like hell and he can easily get obsessed with little things.
Our soon to be shower is a good example...
The inspector came to see the progress and stated that the controls to the shower had to go on the other wall because a person may get scolded if he or she were to turn the water on while standing right in front of the shower.
Scott (our contractor whom we are thinking of adopting since he basically lives in our house anyway) understood and agreed. I, understood his point and agreed as well. Patrick.... oh no, all hell was about to break loose!
There is no way he was going to accept it. The shower we got has a thermostatic valve to prevent exactly that. "If the inspector had any brains, he would know that".
I know my husband well enough to know when a battle is brewing and I was absolutely going to stay away from this one. Patrick started getting very angry while doing all kinds of research online. He accumulated pages and pages of articles and technical drawings showing that our original plans for the shower were perfectly safe and that the inspector was the one that was wrong. Not us! Not him!
I simply told him to please, please be calm when talking to the City. I did not want the whole project shut down because the City of Fremont decided we were undesirables anyway. I asked Patrick if he was going to be O.K. if the City refused to see things his way. He looked at me and shouted "I will take this case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if need be!!!".
I know he meant it, so I tried my best to keep a straight face. (It was not easy).
I am happy to report that we found a solution to make both the inspector and Patrick happy. Scott came up with an ingenious idea for the layout. It is too complicated to explain, you will all have to come to our house and check it out for yourselves anytime after 2011 when we approximate that the the project will be finished. (insert an angry, sarcastic smiley).