This day can't get over fast enough UCK!

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Registered: 09-26-2003
This day can't get over fast enough UCK!
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Thu, 04-21-2005 - 4:53pm

OH ICK, EWWWW, YUCK, SHOOOOO!!!! I got up this morning, and the sun was shining and the birds were singing, and the kids weren't beating each other with legos, and all was well in the world. Then my husband came upstairs from his office downstairs, and he DID NOT LOOK HAPPY. And his feet were wet. That's important. We had to have the roto rooter guy come in last week because we had a clogged drain line. Well, apparantly it wasn't as "unclogged" as we had hoped, because when I turned on the dishwasher, the whole downstairs back pressured, and water was shooting about TWO FEET in the air out of the sink, the tub, and the TOILET!!! EWWWWW! A huge part of our basement was covered in stinky ooky stuff that I can only describe and grey water and sludge. The wet dry vac is going to have to be submerged in bleach so far as I can tell, and unless I get to feeling more secure about my own cleanliness, I might just be submerged right along with it. Does anyone know if a Lysol bubble bath would REALLY hurt you??? This is just the grossest thing I've ever seen--and I have helped cows give birth. SHOOOO!

When you go into your bathroom this afternoon to go pee, might I suggest that you watch the water swirl away and say a silent prayer of thanks for the miracle of functioning indoor plumbing that hasn't become posessed of some evil sewage spirit. Otherwise, your house too might smell like the local water treatment plant, which no amount of potpourri in the WORLD is going to cover up.

YUCK.

Angela

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Registered: 09-21-2004
Thu, 04-21-2005 - 5:02pm
Oh no Angela!! I a shove some dynamite down the pipes and get the heck out...only light them when the plumber gets there!

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Registered: 11-11-2003
Thu, 04-21-2005 - 10:04pm

LOL, oh NO Angela!!!

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Registered: 09-26-2003
Sun, 04-24-2005 - 11:34am

I have to tell ya--the plumber came, and I could have shoved the stick of dynamite in the amount of tush crack that he was flashing me!! I just don't understand it--don't these guys know that they're just feeding that stereotype LOL! PULL 'EM UP! I don't know which was worse, the guck, or trying not to laugh at my plumbers big old butt. . .

Angela

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Registered: 09-26-2003
Sun, 04-24-2005 - 11:42am

Thanks guys--we actually have dry floor showing (YAH!) now, and we seem to have come to the end of the "shower of poo" as my husband nicknamed our dilemma. . .

As it turns out, it was caused by none other than a SQUIRREL. Yes, you heard me right, a squirrel. At some point, a squirrel got up on our roof, and for whatever nut-brained reason became enchanted with the vent pipe to our plumbing (which sticks out on the roof). It got in, but couldn't get out, and soon we had a "squirrel cork" in our vent. Without an air vent, the whole system became a vacuum, built up internal pressure and clogs, and started spewing "stuff" at us. I have to tell you, seeing my poor husband's face as he was cleaning out the "debris" from the vent was pitiful--he's a graphic artist, not a gross stuff handler lol. . .

In any event, I'm now doing the happy dance every time I flush the potty, just because it's doing it's thing the right way LOL!

:) Angela

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Registered: 01-06-2004
Sun, 04-24-2005 - 1:14pm
Oh you poor things to have to live with that. What bad luck.
Are the roto rooter people going to pay to fix it? They should have fixed it the first time. I would say soething to them.
I hope it smells better and the problem gets fixed real soon.

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Sun, 04-24-2005 - 11:44pm
oh no, that is awful!!!!!!!!

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Registered: 09-21-2004
Mon, 04-25-2005 - 11:58am

I am glad things are going better! You know we should start a movement for a bill for "The Manditory sergical lowering of butt cracks!!" With all those teenagers showing their crack like the stereotypical plumber I think

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