Ho Ho, The Plumber's Here!........

So last night whilst I was at work the sewer pipe that my washing machine drains into backed up when Jenn (playing the ever-so-sweet housewife...) was washing my unmentionables. A short while later after an evening of sipping juice she went to flush the toilet, and once again water gurgled up out of the drain onto the floor. When I finally got home I had to see for myself just how bad the dirty, pissy water situation really was and like a brilliant sleuth, I emptied the washing machine and got doused in lovely sewer water back-up myself.

So the call went out to the Plumber and the Nightmare in the Shit-Duct had begun...

The blockage was 45 feet down..... He couldn't get past it...... What could it be???? The wad-of-whatthefuck was so lodged it broke the bit off the Roto-Rooter..... Finally the hairy blob of something that looked like a dead cat started to make its way back up the pipe...... Small bits ripping free that looked something like this......



Jenn and I stood there utterly disgusted but equally curious.... "What in the HELL is THAT!" Jenn asked politely to the hard-working young man....
"Well ma'am, It's tampons....Lots of them...Years of them... Hah Hah, they tell you can flush those things just to keep us plumbers in work! Hah Hah!"

O.K. then.....

- Best $141.77 I've ever spent.

I think we have all learnt a good lesson here... Here is a nice list of things that should never be flushed