pee-pee in the bathtub?!?

“sooooo, me and Tarpster moved into a new apartment this weekend, and it has some MAJOR digestive problems! first, the kitchen sink started to overflow, and i had to bail it out. then we noticed the toilet didn't always flush. by midnight Saturday night, we were waiting for the plumber to try and clear out the pipes under the toilet...not exactly the way we thought we'd be spending our first weekend there, LOL! so several plumbing visits later...we flushed the toilet this morning, and it went directly out of the drain, INTO THE BATHTUB!! i didn't even know that was possible. AAHHHHH!!”

“Oh, hell. I thought this was going to be a thread about kinky sex!”

“Actually, you have my sympathy. I had the same prob here a couple of months ago. It's truly nasty, no?”

“for real! today they're going to put another thing down the toilet pipes, this time with a camera on it. yummy! but the apt. people are being nice about it...they're going to let us move into an empty apt. down the hall until all the grossness is remedied :-)

Father Goose, get your mind out of the gutter!! and that reminds me, there's a window in the shower. weird!”

“hey skully, what turned out to be the problem, anyway? no one seems to be able to figure it out so far. they even put in a new toilet, LOL. like that would help.”

“Lyra:

What a lousy weekend! Yeah, all the drains in the bathroom are usually all connected--basin, toilet, and tub. Found this out when our basin backed up into the tub. Fortunately we didn't have your experience. The plumber was showing me how he could run the rod from the tub to the basin and the toilet and beyond! Lots of luck!”

“You gotta window in yer shower? Where do ya live?














Let's see, where's my camera?...”

“Can't figure it out? It's got to be a clog between the toilet and the vertical pipe! Duh!”

“Hey lyra! You should post the sewage pipe pics for a trip report!”

“Having been in the plumbing trade, I can vouch for the fact that it is ALL connected...













also to the facts that $hit rolls downhill, payday is on Friday, and plumbers NEVER bite their fingernails!”

“Well, in my case it was a clog in the main drain pipe between the house and the main sewer line. Even the kitchen sink drained into the tub. Can you say Roto-rooter? I now hate the neighbor's tree.”

“oooh, oooh, Aero...i've got a better idea! a live webcam, mooooaahaahaahaa! yum-o-rama.

i believe THAT, FG, hehehe!”

“is the Roto-rooter that spider-looking thing they make a lot of noise with, that goes down the toilet pipes? it's a pretty old building...i have a feeling the plumbing isn't that great to begin with.

but the place is soooo cute! it has hardwood floors and lots of windows and new appliances :-) hopefully we'll get to enjoy it soon...”

“It's a motorized snake. It's used to pull out the clog.”

“Skating away-hey, skating away-hey on the thin $hit of the new day-hey-hey-hey-ee-yay!”

“gotcha. hey, Father Goose, maybe you can help me figure out a total mystery. once some guys were fixing some pipes in our basement. one came up and asked for a slice of bread. i was like, "do you want a sandwich or something?" he said, "no, no, i just need a slice of bread." and he took it downstairs where he was working! what?? is that some magical pipe repair that i'm not privy to? LMAO!!”

“In our old place,we used to have the main drain roto-rootered every year. If we didn't the washing machine drain would fill and overflow onto the floor. Not great, but not as bad as sewage backing up into your tub.

When I moved into that place (I moved in with my wife after we married) she would listen for the washer to go into the drain cycle, then sit on top of it, and listen to the drain fill, then shut off the machine when the drain pipe filled to the top. I think I put up with that for about a year, then I called up Roto-rooter. Voila, no more sitting on top of the washing machine! Until it overflowed again, the next year.”

“Perhaps he had a sudden craving for s#!t on a shingle?”

“I know what the bread was for but I wasn't asked. hmmph!”

“The bread is use to stop the water from dripping in a copper pipe so that it can be soldered. If there is any moisture in the pipe, the solder will not heat and flow properly. The bread will be flushed through the system (no pun intended).”

“oh. i'm sort of disappointed, i kind of liked it better when it was a mystery...

hiiii, Violin! ;-)”

“We had the same problem. Nothing like going to take a shower and pulling back the shower curtain only to find sewage. Can ruin your whole day. Our problem was tree roots. Took 4 power snakein's and a bunch of copper sulfate flushed down the toilet once every two weeks to "fix" the problem. If we forget about the copper sulfate it reoccurs. Hope they fix yours soon. You're fortunate to have a plumber doing it for you, lol. Sounds like a nice apt. otherwise.”

“Hey, if'n ya didn't wanna know, ya shouldn'ta axed!”

“yeah, Sassafras, i'm really, really glad we don't have to do it or pay for it ourselves. that IS one good thing about it. i bet you don't forget the copper sulfate very often, LOL! yuck.

i know, FG, i'm just funnin'...i do appreciate the knowledge :-)”

“Can you say Roto-rooter?"
skullcap
10:22:10 AM
05/20/02

No. Our company ownes Rescue Rooter. I would get shot for uttering the name of that "other" company.”

“This is a job for........












”

“Best coupla bucks I ever spent, was for a curb plunger. I've saved several neighbors expensive plumber calls by freeing up their drains from the street.”

“I bet that had a nice smell too it!!!!

8)”

“What does big hair have to do with this problem?”

“Someone had better tell her the '80s called and it wants its hair back!”

“And it's acid washed jumpsuit, lol.”

“Hey, you guys need to quit bashing on aero's ex-squeeze.”

“EEEEKK!! anything but that! tell me it isn't so, Aero...”

“She looks..........................SASSY!”

“Oh my god, what an 80s high school flashback. And that hair-"the claw, the claw!"
Sorry, many of my classmates tried for the forehead pouf and got the claw look instead. Jeez, that pic's scary.”

“I can't believe no-one caught (or at least mentioned) Lyra's pun!!!

I'll give you a hint . .. it was in this post:

"10:31:25 AM
05/20/02"”

“Nor can i believe that no one has said . .

LIVING WITH TARPIE????? THE HORROR, THE HORRROR!!"”

“well, now he has someone to make sure he takes his medication...mooooaahaahaahaa!! ;-)

this just in...apparently the 2 apts. on either side of us are having the same problem. that really sucks for them, because they don't have another empty apt. to use, like we do!”

“It was once a FAD among Washingtonians, when RETURNING HOME from vacations, to bring back baby Aquatoids for their children to raise as pets. Unfortunately, the babies would QUICKLY GROW and outlive their cuteness, at which point their owners would flush the poor things down the TOILET to be rid of them.

Well, a few of these disposed-of creatures survived in the damp darkness of the sewer system and BEGAN TO BREED, with the result that there are now colonies of full-grown Aquatoids living under the streets of Washington. Some say the creatures are BLIND AND ALBINO, having lost their eyesight and the pigment in their hides due to the constant darkness in which THEY dwell.

There have been several reported cases of these creatures CLIMBING BACK UP SEWER LINES and into homes and apartments through plumbing fixtures.

The Aquatoid Race is an ancient society, having existed millennia BEFORE man's first faltering steps upon the world. The Aquatoid race SEEKS TO PROPAGATE its sterile race by genetic modification, the ideal subjects being HUMAN BEINGS. Experiments have SPAWNED NUMEROUS HYBRID RACES.”

“Marvin!! Where have you been. I was afraid you got beamed up to the Enterprise.”

“yo, Marv! i can bottle that up real cheap for ya, i know how you love a tall glass of pee-pee! ;-)”

“You really need to send that pic to www.mulletsgalore.com

really you do”

“MULLETS SUCK!!!!!

ARGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!

8)”

“Lyra, the window in the shower thing is weird. I live in an old house now and it has a window in the shower. I lived in an old 4-plex in beautiful uptown Butte, MT a couple yrs. ago and it also had a weirdo shower window. It takes some getting used to.”

“Designed by someone who REALLY liked "Rear Window" !!!






Actually, window was there before there were showers.”

“no, the shower? Maybe :D”