#36: toilet overflow in your second floor bathroom. into the lobby on the first floor.
the toilet had been acting up today, and seemed like it would overflow earlier, so i turned off the water. i thought i had turned it back on, but then tonight my roommate was in there, and said, "i think the toilet's broken." what she was concerned with was that it wasn't flushing. so i said, "oh, i turned off the water earlier and i must have forgotten to turn it back on." so i turned the little knob back on at the base of the toilet, and we tried flushing it again.
well, the water worked this time. the toilet still wasn't going down. and then the water overflowed. i tried to turn the knob off again, but the water started touching my toes-eww...so i ran away. then mary, my toiletmate, put on flipflops and turned the knob off. my roommate ran to tell the rd, while we started throwing paper towels on the half inch of water. we grabbed the mop on the floor and started mopping. my roommate returned with the report of a waterfall on the first floor. oh great.
we mopped a bit, waiting for janitorial staff. luckily for us, the cleaning lady comes at night, so she was available to disinfect the floor. we have a plumber type guy here trying to get the toilet to work. so now i'm watching al gore on letterman trying not to remember #37...."realizing there's a whole other day of work before the weekend."
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Yep. Toilet disasters are among the worst - especially late at night when all you really want to do is sleep....
Along a similar line of thinking, I once had a sewer line get blocked somewhere between our house and the street. It went undetected for a while, because the washing-machine drain simply worked in reverse, regurgitating everything we sent down out onto our basement floor. Talk about "Eeeewwwww!". I ended up playing 'Clean Harbors' for a morning - soak the entire basement in chlorine; mop it up; repeat until you cannot smell anything. Never mind why you can's smell anything! I cannot imagine being a plumber.
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