Disclaimer: If you are a total germ-a-phobe (like Stacy) you might want to not read this post.
Yesterday as I was preparing dinner, my children overflowed the toilet. A child had stopped it up earlier in the day, and I was aware that it wasn't flushing properly. I had tried to plunger it, to no effect, so I lifted the seat up and then yelled like a maniac anytime a child tried to enter the bathroom.
I'm pretty sure Gabrielle must have forgotten about how I freaked out when she tried to use it right after school. (I pounded on the door yelling at the top of my lungs.) I think she used it, and then Gavin, seeing that the bowl only filled to the brim with water instead of flushing down, flushed it again. Guys, there was a flood of water. It filled my bathroom, laundry room, the bathroom closet and the floor in front of the door to the garage. I was sooooo mad.
Of course I had two children standing in the middle of the flood that now desperately needed a bath. I won't give you the disgusting details, but I bathed two children, sent everyone to time out (Yeah, I know half of them hadn't done anything.) and spent the next hour mopping up water with towels, disinfecting the floors, running laundry and shampooing the carpet.
I was so mad I couldn't even speak to Brendon when he came home. I just called to tell him not to come into the house through the garage. He could tell I was upset and offered to help, but when I am that angry, I just want to be left alone to deal with it. Dinner sat in the oven for longer than it should have, and was a bit dry last night.
5 comments:
That is so crappy. I would have been pretty upset over it too. I usually have kids go into time out until the mess is cleaned up, because I don't want to see them.
I'm glad to know that I am not the only one.
I had that happen to me last month. It was not fun. I was trying to plunge it down as it overflowed all over the floor. I chased my kids out before they got into it, but my feet weren't so lucky. I am just glad that someone invented bleach.
Yuck! I can just imagine... It's a good thing you have such cute kids.
When we lived in Vegas, the house we lived in had a Tim the tool time toilet. You flushed it by pushing a button on the top of the tank. It was so loud and seriously would have sucked you in if you were on it while it flushed. We never in four years had a probelm. I gotta get me another one of those!
Post a Comment