The tale of the exploding toilet by Smartbutdumbblonde

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The tale of the exploding toilet
Thursday, May 25, 2006

OK, so I mentioned the expolding toilet in my last blog, so in case some of you were going eh?? here is the full story.
First of all, my house is like 200 years old, and old house = old plumbing.
A few weeks ago, there was a big blockage in the main sewer pipe that runs along the road (nothing to do with us, I might add), and everytime it rained heavily, the water in our toilet would come right up to the brim. Not over the top, just up to the brim. It was only us that got affected because ours is the only downstairs bathroom in the block of houses.
After weeks of my parents ringing up the council, these people finally came with a big hose to blast the blockage out. So they put it down, turned it on, and they either put it down the wrong pipe, or it was too powerful (got confused by all the technical jargon), and all this water came shooting out of our toilet, covering the whole bathroom and most of the ceiling in sewer water!
My Dad came to pick me up from school that day instead of my Mum, and the conversation in the car went something like this:
Me: Where's Mum?
Dad: At home.
Me: Why?
Dad: She's cleaning the bathroom.
Me: Why?
Dad:(completely straight face)The toilet exploded.
Cue me dissoving into hysterical giggles!
My mum didn't find it funny at all, probably because she was the one who had to clean it up!