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[jeriendhal]

This afternoon was mostly consumed with dealing with the ongoing saga of my toliet. With the gratefully appreciated help of jvowles I managed to pry up the jammed toliet and run the pipe snake down, to try and clear the jam I thought was way down in the pipes. Before we set the new seal on the bottom of the seat, we decided to play it safe and run the snake up though the bottom of the toilet's pipes just to be certain. Which I'm very glad we did.

Folks, somehow Thomas managed, in a moment of unsupervised time, to flush an entire chicken breast down the toilet, where it unsurprisingly got thoroughly jammed. I knew the powder room was smelling a bit funky, but I'd passed that off as being the result of stagnant, water. No such luck. That thing had been in there for two weeks and when I finally pulled it out both Jim and I nearly gagged. I can laugh about it, because thanks to Jim I managed to avoid paying $250.00 to a plumber to locate the problem and fix the seal. As it was it only cost me $2.50 for the new seal and a bit of time.

But I am going to have to find a way to keep Tom out of there until we can get him pass this particular experimental stage... O_O

BTW Jim, I owe you a dinner. Name the time and place.

Comments

[spiffikins]

Oh god.


My brother went through 18 months where he flushed EVERYTHING down the toilet - toothbrushes, hot wheel cars, tennis balls (which don't fit, btw) - we would find him constantly coming out of the bathroom with a little grin on his face.

My sympathies!

There are tools to combat this - my friend had a fancy toilet lid that required some leverage to open - hers was more paranoia that the kid would somehow drown himself in the toilet than flush random objects down it, but the principle is the same

[chewipaka.livejournal.com]

Dye the water green, and maybe make him afraid of the flush itself? But then, that would totally back fire on you. And he'd be afraid to use the toilet and that would make things worse in a different manner!

Yeah, have fun with that :-D

[robin-greenwood.livejournal.com]

Oh, my.... hard not to laugh at this, but in the immortal words of a former President, "I feel your pain." May this be the last time that particular operation needs to be enacted!

[badasher.livejournal.com]

LMAO! That's what you get get for letting him get on YouTube and watch toilet videos. ;-)

The little stinker... I knew had trained him well in the arts of chaos and obfuscation...but I did not realize how far he had progressed.