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this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2024
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My daughter didn’t check the toilet after she flushed it right before bed. It was in a back bedroom that nobody else really goes to. It ended up flooding overnight and I didn’t discover it til the next morning, when I found my kitchen flooding from the ceiling. It apparently wasn’t from poop though as I didn’t see any fecal matter around (unless it was in the ceiling that got torn out). Whole kitchen ceiling got torn out, along with the floor of the bathroom. Not a huge amount of damage, but the most the house has sustained… so far.
Who does?
Germans
TIL I’m German. I just always doublecheck everything has gone down, just a listen for something not right, a quick glance. It’s not like I’m hovering over the bowl like, “Yes, my little fecal babies, your time with me may be at an end, but your journey in this world has only just begun…” I mean, who does that? Not this well-adjusted person.
They are referring to the meme about old German toilets having an 'inspection shelf' (Flachspüler)
Yes, but also I do the exact same thing as that guy, except I don't get overly poetic while I say goodbye to my butt lumps
🎵 My lumps, my lumps! 🎶
I think the implication was that she wasn't aware of whether or not the toilet finished flushing.
I have one toilet that flushes quickly, and I can usually tell that it's finish flushing by the time I've finished washing my hands.
? Are the toilets usually slow where you live?
The toilets here take just a few seconds to flush.
Including the refill?
Ah, you meant the refill. I don't know how fast that is. It's way slower than the actual flush though.
You can't be certain your toilet has completed a flush "safely" until it's finished (and stopped) refilling!
So what happened? How did the toilet (?) flood?
Still no idea, she could’ve put a paper towel or something in there or just used too much toilet paper. This was a month or two ago, so not likely we’ll ever know.
If only there was some way to communicate with her
wait, so it was both clogged and had a stuck valve? talk about being unlucky.