It’s time for another installment of “When my head explodes!” It’s been over eight months, since our last episode, and thankfully, this was a minor event. If you’re new to What’s That Smell, you can catch up here, or here, or here.
Michael came out of the bathroom this morning with a rather odd look on his face. When I asked, he led me to my bathroom. The toilet had completely overflowed. And, unlike Jake, he had no idea what to do or how to prevent it. The good news is that it was not ‘big business’.
As I was cleaning up, some thoughts that came into my head:
1. Maybe indoor plumbing isn’t such a good idea. While I’m not advocating going back to outhouses (What’s THAT Smell?), if the toilet was outside you wouldn’t have so much to clean up.
2. I can handle cleaning up diapers, puking, even bathroom accidents, but toilet plungers have to be the grossest thing. The water splashes everywhere, you’re touching you-know-what with it, and then you have to carry the dripping mess to the shower. It’s covered in billions of germs. Blaaaaccchhhhh!
3. I wouldn’t be in this situation if Steve the World’s Most Incompetent plumber had installed the toilets I specified, not these cheap pieces of junk. Man, I hate that guy.
4. And finally, I need the names of the members of Congress that passed the law requiring low-flow toilets. What were these people thinking?? Why are they dictating what I do in my own, personal bathroom? Do they live with these things, as well?
5. I’m reminded of the Seinfeld episode where Jerry & Kramer were trying to get the high flow shower faucets.
There. That feels better.
It’s so nice to be in good company! Kim, relocating the kitchen door was the work of a genius!
VW bug,
Ok you win the award for most disgusting toilet story!
Yuck!
Kim
Summer,
Luckily my son doesn’t do that, unluckily he doesn’t need to, he clogs it naturally!
Kim
Eryn,
That is brilliant, a self-cleaning plunger. You need to say “patent pending”
Kim
Connie,
That is hysterical. And scary. My son always clogs our neighbor’s toilet when we go over there. Guess I have so much more to look forward to!
Kim
Lori,
Seriously. Time to move. Too bad, I liked what you did with the place…addition-wise. Especially moving that door to the kitchen. :)
At least mine are past licking the outside of the toilet bowl. No joke, when Tot was 1 1/2 years old, I found him in the bathroom licking the side of the toilet. Even though I wipe it with clorax wipes… I still felt like throwing up. Ugh… I hate cleaning boys bathrooms.
Ewww, ick! I have an over-paper user. My oldest likes to grab nearly a entire roll of paper if I have it available to use. The plunger and I know each other very well.
ick ick ick. I hear ya, sister.
they make all sorts of other things with a self-cleaning function, can’t they make me a self-cleaning plunger?
We’ve been having plumbing issues, because it seems that roots keep growing into our pipes and blocking them up. I’ve never hated trees so much in my life lol
I’m sorry Connie, but I just can’t relate to your story at all, I can’t even imagine lol I read the whole comment with my mouth open! Maybe he needs to eat more fiber? or less?! lol
Lori,
One of my sons, I won’t name him :), clogged every toilet of EVERY hotel we ever stayed in. Honest! He clogged the toiled of the Boardwalk Hotel (right over the bakery) at Walt Disney World – 3 times!
At the MGM Grand in Las Vegas we we awakened at 3am by pounding on our door. Seems Mr. Plug-it-up had done it again and the bathroom was under 3″ of water and the rest was leaking into the casino below. I swear! The next day there was still an area cordoned off because they had to pull up the carpet, clean underneath it, and then clean the carpet.
You’d think when he got older he’d perfect the “double-flush” method. NOPE! When he was TWENTY he flooded the suite we’d been upgraded to at the Mirage in Vegas.
So, I wish I could tell you your plumbing troubles are over….but, they sure make for funny stories MUCH, MUCH, MUCH later on. :)
Happy plunging and consider a travel plunger :)
Connie