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[which_chick]

Rule for tenants: You get one freebie instance of me having to pull up your toilet, tip it upside down, and root through its innards to discover what you have done to make it not-flush and not-snake. After you break your cherry (an event which is noted in your file) on the toilet-upending front, successive instances will cost you twenty dollars per instance. Thank you for playing!

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_the_firedancer/]

'k, I'll bite. What had they done? (So as I can add it to my ever growing list of stuff to watch out for should I ever have kids / tenant, both of which seem equally hasslesome.)

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

One of the children in the household (age 6) had attempted to flush a toy that had fallen into the toilet. Not-very-clueful people (this includes the young and the terminally stupid) who are confronted with an inappropriate item falling into the toilet generally feel that the correct answer is flush the problem away. (Not the correct answer.) Flushing is easy and the problem goes away... at least, that's what they think until the next flush or the flush after, when the toilet overflows the rim and gets *yuck* all over the bathroom floor. That's generally when I get the panicked phone call. :)

People who live in a more reality-based world never get to the toilet-overflowing stage because they understand that the correct response to having an inappropriate item fall into the toilet is to fish the darned thing out and apply soap, water, and bleach to item and/or hand as is appropriate.

The reason that there's a twenty-dollar charge for second and subsequent instances of toilet-upending is that some folks are very slow learners and need special incentives to make them stick their HANDS in THERE where it's ALL ICK!! We use a twenty-dollar charge because I am not allowed to make the tenants wear special collars capable of delivering electric shocks... (Also, it's a small enough amount of money that they can come up with it. Twenty dollars is "real" to them in a way that a hundred dollars isn't. Also, it's a large enough amount to make me feel okay about having to pull the toilet. Again.)