Last night I was on the phone with one of my girlfriends. We were chit chatting, blah blah blah… She asks me to hold on, in the background I hear water swooshing, gulping and gurggling.
She gets back on the phone and I ask her, “Are you plunging the toilet?” She replies, “The toilet is backed up and my husband will kill me if he finds out!”
All right, all right. I can feel the heat in my cheeks, my eyes are all aglow, goosebumps on my skin. Now, if anyone knows me, they know I don’t back down from the difficult questions. Like a 2 year old, here I go…
“Did you take a really big shit and flush too much paper?” She said, No.
“Did you little boy flush his diaper down the toilet?” She said, No.
Ok, I was hoping not to get to this question, but here it is. “Did you flush a tampon down the toilet?” She said, yes. I said, “Don’t you know you never flush feminine products down your home toilet?” She said, “yes, but I’m too lazy to properly wrap the products and throw them in the garbage.” She said it also makes her sick to do so. (Please keep in mind that all the while I’m asking her these questions, she is plunging the darned toilet.)
Then she starts explaining that this is not the first time that this has happened, and the her hubbie in the past has expressed extreme distaste when she does this. So she’s standing in her bathroom at 11pm vigorously plunging the toilet because she not only flushed the tampon, but the PLASTIC applicator and the plastic wrapper. Tsk! Tsk! Tsk! And she’s trying to clear the toilet before her husband comes upstairs and catches her. Vigorously, she plunges on… Finally, I hear the draining of the toilet and the sweet gurgle at the end.
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So, I posted this blog with a final thought in mind, and I never expressed that thought. Here it is…
The moral to this story is, (sorry that I have to use CAPS, but it’s necessary) DON’T FLUSH YOUR TAMPONS DOWN THE TOILET IN YOUR OWN HOME!!!!!! They are not good for your plumbing. I’ve spoken to a plumber about this and he says that they can get stuck in the pipes, because, hmmm, they swell, they’re made of cotton and they absorb liquids!! Save your plumbing, and wrap the item in TP. That’s all I have to say about this…