Stopped up commode.....oh my!!! :)

[John Schmidt]

One of my daughters supervises/manages a number of apartment bldgs. for a company that works under HUD rules for low income rentals. One of her duties is if there is a problem in a unit it's up to her to arrange for the repair. In this case it was a stopped up commode for an elderly gent and the problem went from bad to worse. She called me late this afternoon and could hardly talk 'cuz she was laughing so hard.

Seems their regular maintenance guy didn't have a long enough router/snake to run into the commode so they called a regular plumber....who apparently didn't have much experience. He had one of those big powered units with a motor on it and started feeding it into the problem commode. After a few minutes he was alarmed to hear a bunch of screaming and profanity coming from the apt. next door so he stopped. Instead of the end of the snake going down the sewer line, it continued on and up through the commode next door, blowing it off the floor. It kept going up the wall, hitting the towel bar and snagging the $600 wig hanging there which belonged to some black chick that lived in the apartment. Her boyfriend tried to rescue it to no avail. About this time, the young inexperienced plumber pulled the snake back out, removed the wig which was now soaked and covered with all kinds of debris normally found in sewer lines, packed up his stuff and left. According to the wig owner, she had just removed her more than ample(not quite how my daughter described it but you get the idea) behind from the commode, imagine what would have happened had she still been sitting there. That part isn't so amusing. The amusing part was the woman's issue was more with the wig than with the repair and replacement of the commode.

This all happened yesterday and this morning a new commode was sitting by the apt. front door waiting to be installed. Apparently replacing the wig is still under discussion. I found this all kinda funny, especially the wig part....guess you had to be there. 

[old2soon]

HUD housing section 238 housing I believe but da gubmint makes it happen-generally on our-taxpayers dime. A $600.00 wig and she's in HUD housing? Course down here I've seen folks usin that EBT card to fill their bass boat. I've had friends tell me they've bought Very Expensive steaks for a half or a third of sticker price. But John I gotz ta admit-that right there be funny!  RIDE SAFE.
 

[cookiedough]

HUD housing section 238 housing I believe but da gubmint makes it happen-generally on our-taxpayers dime. A $600.00 wig and she's in HUD housing? Course down here I've seen folks usin that EBT card to fill their bass boat. I've had friends tell me they've bought Very Expensive steaks for a half or a third of sticker price. But John I gotz ta admit-that right there be funny!  RIDE SAFE.
 

yah, I just love the females in line with 10 kids clinging to her with govt. funding to pay for steaks and lobsters, something I rarely by.  her bill 600 bucks (actually free to her), carts full,  while mine lucky to be 60 bucks can carry out with my 2 hands 3-4 plastic bags. 

[DDT (12)]

John,

It was a funny story, and it speaks to us on many levels... just as you intended... We humans are a very curious lot, and we are hands-down the greatest source of humor on the planet! Our choices, actions, priorities, vanities, and even our thoughts can generate huge guffaws, chortles, and chuckles for others, and, looking back, for ourselves as well... I just hope that wig-less tenant can find some funniness in all of this, too...

As for yours truly... I've faced a couple of stopped up commodes in my time, but nothing even remotely humorous happened. On the other hand, I've had to stop for some commodes, and a few of those were humorous, indeed! Most, not so much...

Hope all is well down in the shadows of my alma mater, Rollins College...

DDT

[Firefighter]

I have been over my head so to speak trying to make plumbing flow in the right direction, but I never even dreamed of that one! Glad there were no casualties .

[baldo]

I read a similar story once, where a homeowner was using a power snake in an upstairs bathroom. Little did he know that the snake entered the vent pipe and emerged on his roof. He kept feeding it in and spinning like crazy, as it ripped the shingles off his roof. He didn't realize it until his neighbor from across the street barged in and let him know....

[John Schmidt]

Hope all is well down in the shadows of my alma mater, Rollins College...

DDT
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Yes, all's well at Rollins, daddies are still paying the bills. I was hoping one of them would buy my 1200 now that it's posted in Craigs List. I go past it every time I go to the gym, last week I scared the knapsack right off a couple honeys crossing the street in front of me....I had the light, they didn't. I coasted up to them while they crossed with their noses buried into their phones, didn't look, cars were stopping for them since they weren't paying any attention. I have an air horn on my Valk, I think one gal must have wet herself but it didn't stop her from turning the air blue. Guess I've been out of the military too many years. I just quietly asked her what color the light was, she looked, flipped me off and stormed the rest of the was across. Every time she started yelling, I hit the horn. It was fun. 

[Jess from VA]

My story is not nearly as funny. 

The wife dropped an apple in the toilet and, too squeamish to grab it out, tried flushing it down, but of course it just plugged up (completely).

My plumber back then was a good friend (so we formed a quick conspiracy).  We had to pull the bowl and take it outside.  We showed the wife neither of our hands were small enough to reach into the trap to reach the apple, so she had to go in to the elbow (or was it the shoulder) to pull it out (and what a face ladies and gentleman).  She went in to scrub her arm with steel wool and bleach, and we just laughed our asses off.

Justice was served.   Do stupid things, win stupid prizes.

[solo1]

I can't vouch for the accuracy but heard the story many years ago. Ham radio.

This amateur radio operator lived on the top of a hill.  He was using a vertical antenna but couldn't get a good ground because of the high ground so he tied the ground system of the antenna into his septic tank.  The first time that he keyed up the transmitter on CW with 1,000 watts, he heard a loud scream.

His wife was sitting on the john. After the situation died down, he found that the ground line to the septic tank was exactly 1/4 wavelength on 20 meters.  It was not one of his better ideas, and his wife grounded HIM! 

[Jess Tolbirt]

I can't vouch for the accuracy but heard the story many years ago. Ham radio.

This amateur radio operator lived on the top of a hill.  He was using a vertical antenna but couldn't get a good ground because of the high ground so he tied the ground system of the antenna into his septic tank.  The first time that he keyed up the transmitter on CW with 1,000 watts, he heard a loud scream.

His wife was sitting on the john. After the situation died down, he found that the ground line to the septic tank was exactly 1/4 wavelength on 20 meters.  It was not one of his better ideas, and his wife grounded HIM! 

now this is funny as hell,, i had a 1000 watt warrior behind a yeasu ft 101B and was setting the swr on the antenna. i had the tower laid over so i could adjust it and just as i grabbed the adjusting thingy, you know that little wire you slide back and forth, my son at 4 years old decided to talk on the radio just like daddy..i saw stars for at least 15 minutes...

[baldo]

Early in my career I was installing avionics packages in corporate jets. We were installing a complete package in a G-2, including HF. During final testing, a co-worker was testing the coms and mistakenly had the HF selected. Just as he keyed the mike another guy stepped onto the airstairs to enter the plane. I heard a large bang and saw him down on the hangar floor. He was out like a light, didn't come back to work for a couple of weeks.

[John Schmidt]

Those radio and transmission stories reminds me of something we used to do in the AF. We had to periodically test and align the bombing radar on the heavy bombers...B-52 & 47. We had an instrument that was set up a certain distance out front of the a/c and we'd aim and sweep the antenna over it. In doing so we could get a read on power, angle of declination, various other input which I don't recall....was over 50 yrs. ago. Both bombing systems had periscopes so you could see out front quite easily and clearly. What was fun was looking off to one side with the radar and popping fluorescent lights in the back of a nearby shop that was situated near the flightline. Sometimes just to bug the ground crew of an adjacent a/c, we'd toss a handfull of flashbulbs near their ground power unit, then fire up our radar. We'd wait until one of the crew walked nearby and hit the bulbs with the beam, causing the flashbulbs to do what they do....flash. Interesting reactions.    We did it one time and the a/c commander happened to walk by at the same time. Another interesting reaction.  

[Jess Tolbirt]

Early in my career I was installing avionics packages in corporate jets. We were installing a complete package in a G-2, including HF. During final testing, a co-worker was testing the coms and mistakenly had the HF selected. Just as he keyed the mike another guy stepped onto the airstairs to enter the plane. I heard a large bang and saw him down on the hangar floor. He was out like a light, didn't come back to work for a couple of weeks.

as soon as i saw high freq i knew what was coming