NationStates Jolt Archive

So today I learned several lessons that, as a 15-year-old, I had hoped to not have to learn for several years. In the order I learned them:
1)When a toilet bowl looks a bit too full to be normal, it probably isn't. Check carefully for nasty bits of TP that are wedged in.
2)Plungers take a lot more arm strength to operate than you might think.
3)Closing that little valve is key if you want the plunger to actually have any effect.
4)If it looks like urine and smells like urine, it probably is urine. If it's all over your floor, clean it before it spreads.
5)Don't leave clothes out on the floor if you're ignoring rule #1
6)Towels may seem absorbent, but even large ones can't handle a full toilet bowl's worth of overflow.

Any funny stories about this stuff? I could really use some humor today...

It never ceases to amaze me that at work, a place full of grown adults that fully understand the concept of a plunger, they always go find management when a toilet's clogged.

I've threatened many times to write up a Training Record on how to use a plunger and have everyone sign it so we don't have this problem anymore.

Don't know if this is FUNNY or not...

My cat has taught himself how to flush the toilet. This would not be a bad thing, except for the fact that on occasion, the toilet runs if you don't jiggle the handle after flushing, and, if it runs too long, it sometimes overflows. This combination has led to my unpleasant downstairs neighbor banging on my door at odd hours of the night on two separate occasions to alert me that his ceiling was dripping.

The second time it happened, I was tempted to see if a medium sized CAT was absorbent enough to clean up the water.

And there was that one time when my friend's girlfriend was here, and she used the bathroom and managed to make it overflow. I was not too upset about it, a quick jiggle and a little mopping solved it, but you would have thought she had burned my apartment house to the ground from her reaction. Well, I suppose I would have felt the same had I done it to someone else's toilet.