How my toilets made me more self-confident...
Let me tell you what happened to me yesterday night.
As I was coming back from the cinema (where I watched “little miss sunshine” which is, by the way, a really excellent movie) I realised that my toilet was clogged… I was like “ok, that’s not such a big deal, I just repaired the ballcock 2 weeks ago, so this challenge shouldn’t be a tougher one…!”
I have to mention that it’s only one month I’m no longer living at my parent’s home, so I’m kind of testing myself, seeing how I deal with those daily little problems.
I first thought “I’m pretty sure it’s not really clogged anf if I flush it once, with the pressure the plug will move away”. Then I flushed it.
Oh my god! What a mistake! The water didn’t stop running and the plug was still there! “Stop please, stop it!” I was shouting… But the water kept on… until it finally overflew…
” I have to do something, quick, before it rains in the neighboors’toilet…com’on girl, think, use your brain!!” I finally run to the kitchen and took a bowl and a bottle. I came back to the toilet. There was already 3 mm of water on the ground. I quickly mopped it and started to transfer the water from the toilet to the bowl thanks to the bottle. 5 bottles and the bowl was filled. But the water was still running! Goddam, when will it stop? I cleared the bowl in the bath and came back to the toilet. The water was raising so fast! I repeated the scene 5 or 6 times…
It was 11:56 PM, on Sunday. “When will I have the right to go to sleep? I’m so tired! Am I condemned to do that for the rest of my life? Is that my sentence?”
Then, I had a bright idea : “what about turning the water faucet off?”
Oh my god! How come I didn’t figure it out before? 70% of the planet needs water and I was there in the middle of the night transfering 50 litres from my toilet to my bath… What a dude!
But I was so relieved that I could finally go to bed! I decided that one problem per day was enough and so that I would solve the clogged one the day after.
When I woke up this morning my first thought was “now, how am I going to unblock this f***ing toilet?”. I guess the fact that it was 8 hours since I couldn’t urinate gave me some more motivation. I first checked what they was saying about that on the web. They all have the same solution : “you should use a plunger!” “Ok! But what if I have no plunger…?!?!
F*** it, I’ma do it by myself, I don’t need any advice! Let’s think….what would have the same effect as a plunger…? “. As I couldn’t answer this question, I decided that I would use my own hands. I protected my arm by wearing a trash bag and started to follow the pipe with my hand. I went as far as I could, but it wasn’t enough, I couldn’t reach the plug.
Accidentally, the bag went on dropping into the toilet bowl. It was that big that it almost filled it. This gave me my other bright idea : “I can use this bag as a plunger! It’s big enough for filling the pipe so that I coul pump and create some pressure in it!”. I did it…and guess what….!? It did work! I did it! Now my toilet is free!
I was so happy and so proud of me! I was like “Yes! That’s it, I correctly passed the toilet exam!”
I know it may seem a bit strange, but this event really made me a bit more self-confident. And now, I’m in a good mood for the whole week!