So I was at my sisters house babysitting last night. I normally can only make a bowel movement at home, but nature was calling mighty hard last night. I made a normal poopie, and when I flushed the toilet the poopie got stuck omg, the water continued to rise, and splashed all over the floor. So I had to pack the kids up, and run to the hardware store to buy a plunger. How disguisting When I got back to my sisters house, my sis, and bro-in-law were standing in the doorway to the bathroom with the most horrorfied facial expressions. I told my friend about this, and she thought it was the funniest/weirdest thing she had heard in a while. It was a normal poopie to me, I know it would have went down in my toilet. Has this happened to anyone else?
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Overflowed the toilet
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OMG hon, how embarrassing is that!!!!! :blush:
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Why didn't you turn off the water when it started to rise?
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Ohhh the HORROR!!!!Been there done that. Mine was just as bad if not worse. My wife and I went with my parents to a dinner party at my dad's friends house. It was a fancy dinner party. There were about 12 guests total. Anyways we sit down for dinner and in the middle of dinner... I gotta go. So I excuse myself and go to the bathroom. Well it was one of those bowel movements where you need lots of paper to clean up. I guess I used too much paper because it started going down and got stuck. The water kept rising and rising. I was in panic mode. The water rose right up to the edge and stopped. What now?? The water level slowly dropped so I figured 1 more flush would push it through. I was prepared and turned the water off. I flushed, but even with the water off, the amount of water in teh tank made it rise again... luckily to the edge and stopped. I started digging through the cabinets looking for something to unclog it. A plunger, a brush... nothing. I wasn't about to go out and ask the hosts for a plunger... I mean how embarassing would that be!!! So what now? I thought and sweated and decided that I had to do it. I dunked my hand in and gave it a push. Yeah gross but it worked. Needless to say I scrubbed my hands very well. When I got back , my wife was asking what the hell happened to me. She was getting uncomfortable because I was gone for so long. I don't know how long it was.. maybe 10-15 minutes, but long enough to be noticed that I was gone. My wife died of laughter when I told her what happened on the way home.
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You've just got to laugh when something like that happens. It's God playing a little practical joke, showing us we're not as suave and sophisticated as we like to pretend.I'd have enlivened the dinner party conversation with a detailed description of my adventures. (If it happens again and you can find a large plastic bag, you can put your hand in that and avoid contact with the blocking material.)
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In reply to: Why didn't you turn off the water when it started to rise? I dont know, I was in a panic and not thinking straight. After I had flushed, and was washing my hands, is when I noticed the water was 3/4 to the top. It was like the water was rising in slow motion for the other 1/4. I was in shock and disbelief. I didn't think in a million years it would actually overflow. In reply to: Oh my. That's the funniest story I've heard in a while. What did they say to you? Well my sister thought it was funny, but her husband wasn't too happy about it. It turns out that whatever they had for dinner made him have to poop. So they rushed home, and he ran straight for the toilet. Which is when he saw it, called my sister in to see it, seconds before I got back with the plunger. He said "jesus woman, what the hell did you eat?" as he ran past me and downstairs to use the neighbors bathroom.
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It's funny that this is in the bowel thread rather than the plumbing thread.Problem 1: They have a large family, and they have only one toilet?Problem 2: Their toilet is weak in the flushing department. Some brands work better than others. I spoke to a plumber about this a few years ago, and he had pretty strong feelings on the matter.I'd settle for a junky car, as long as I could have a nice toilet.