cranial flatulance.or..adventures in the toilet

[tamatik]

well... the wife decided to clean out the freezer..all those plastic tubs of leftovers that are older than I am.We have MANY bears here so putting this stuff in the trash is not an option..I had a brainstorm.."lets flush them down the toilet".I,m told my brain only works on weekends and, even then, only on leap year or when the planets align with some misbegotten moon.
Apparently there was some chicken bones lurking in the mushroom soup.The toilet is plugged.Went downtown to buy a "snake".I already own one but."the clean fairy" aka the wife.has put it somewhere, unbeknownced to me.so I spend the afternoon on my hands and knees bowing to the porcelin throne gods.some movement but not enuf..Then comes the drano.stinky stuff.but the great white throne is not unfamiliar with aromatic offerings.I am.ghastly fumes.I ghasp and choke and make my way out to a safer vantage point to ponder this dilemma.
I call the plumber and he informs me he cannot make an appearnce til tomorrow.I am not amused..I inform him that if he comes now, he will only have to deal with a chicken bone, but, tomorrow he will have to wrestle with all manner of unearthly offerings.HE is not amused.
I inform the multitude,aka,the Family, that the great white beyond will not be in service for awhile.THEY are not amused.we wait.................

[pumpkinlady]

LOL!!! So sorry but this is funny. I guess you won't flush your left overs anymore.

[PineRidge]

Oh Dear! lol. At least you were not bowing before the porcelain god for another reason.

Got buckets?

[Cindy in KY]

Maybe, just maybe, get a shovel and bury them next time?

That's what we do in Kentucky.

This is a first for me, of all the things we read on this board, 8 years, and never heard of chicken bone leftovers clogging up a toilet. Probably not one of your better moments....but we do all have them, maybe not as interesting and funny as yours are, but we do have them.

I still laugh every time I think of the duck flying out of the woodstove thread. Now when my house is messy, Steve says better throw a duck in here! You all are priceless.

Oh my, bones in the toilet and possums in the floor vents. What next?

[Micahn]

If you want to fix it yourself here is what you do. Go tot he hardware store and get yourself a new wax ring. Pull the toilet up and turn it over. Make sure to get all the water out of it so you do not make a mess :-)
On the bottom where the stuff comes out you will see a nice hole there. You will notice that the inside of it has lets call a rim there. Chances are that is where the bones got hung up and you should be able to get them out threw there. If they happened to go on down the drain some before getting hung up then yes it is time for a snake.

[Oggie]

Around here we would have battered and deep-fried all that stuff first.

Then it would have been all chewed up before it met the plumbing.

Might have had to invite the kinfolk over, and maybe tap a keg.

[Jerngen]

Originally Posted by Micahn

If you want to fix it yourself here is what you do. Go tot he hardware store and get yourself a new wax ring. Pull the toilet up and turn it over. Make sure to get all the water out of it so you do not make a mess :-)
On the bottom where the stuff comes out you will see a nice hole there. You will notice that the inside of it has lets call a rim there. Chances are that is where the bones got hung up and you should be able to get them out threw there. If they happened to go on down the drain some before getting hung up then yes it is time for a snake.

I agree. I've done it and I don't have a handy bone in my body. Therefore anyone can do it!! (quite simple really) Word of advice, turn the water off first

[Jim S.]

Hilarious! You may have root growth in your pipes, which the bones hung up on. Micahn's suggestion is a good start, and if you don't find the bones in the thrown, then rent a power snake and go right down the pipe from the bowl onward. Cheaper, and you can DIY right now.

[turtlehead]

Around here, "Clean the Fridge" day is late Sunday night or early Monday morning. Trash day is Monday so we try to get the leftovers out the door at the last minute.

Is anyone at your place amused yet?
I sure was, reading your post.
SO sorry for your misfortune, though!

[tamatik]

It would seem that the chicken bone has flown the coop.everything seems to be working rite...SO FAR..but I have not told the multitude..aka family..its good to see them do the 2 step quickly to the gas station down the road,
me think they do protest too much.
vengeance is mine, sayeth the Gord

[RachAnn in NW Okla]

our toilet quit working properly....we put chemicals down it, we plunged, we snaked we finally decided that what we needed was a nwe toilet--cause the hard water had finally won....

we buy a toilet and because we are buying a new one, I decided we may be stuck with it for awhile SOOO we may as well pick one out based on what we want and not on the price....we get it home and change it out

the old toilet was looked at but couldnt find anything wrong with it.....it sat outside for MANY months before we got a trailer and such to haul some stuff to the landfill....we load the trailer and the next day as we are getting ready to leave, the toilet had shifted on the trailer and DH saw the problem....

our Son Flushed A TOY Boat!!!!!

it was so lodged in there that we had to use a hammer to bust the toilet (it cracked when we moved it outside!) so yeah, we have a nice 'big booty seat' that we REALLY didnt even need!

Rachel

[ThreeJane]

My son flushed a bar of SOAP down the toilet...a full bar. It took two days of intermittent boiling hot water flushing and snaking to finally ram it down.

[Davymax]

When my Father actually had to change a diaper, (once that I can recall) I was standing by ready to help. I was three years old at the time, now I am 53 but I can remember it like it was yesterday.

He emptied the load into the toilet, rinsed it out a little and thought he might soak it for a while. Thats where I came in. Doing what I thought should be done, I flushed....well the old man went wild. I learned a few words that night. He was so mad that I suppose thats why I remember it so vividly. Its funny now, but back then....whew boy!

By the way, it was my brothers diaper.

I haven't thought of that time in years. This post brought it all back. Gotta tell Dad.

[Cygnet]

I accidentally flushed an old t-shirt once that I was using as a rag -- O dumped a bucket of dirty wash water into the toilet and the t-shirt was in the water and I'd forgotten about it. It went down, amazingly -- no clog.

Regarding the leftovers, that's what dogs and chickens are for. I pick the bones out, and before we got trash pickup out here, burned them or composted them. Everything else the dogs got and what the dogs wouldn't eat (very unusual) or was something likely to give the dogs the runs, the chickens got. There isn't much that chickens won't eat and I think it's impossible to give a chicken food poisoning ...

[rambler]

I'm wondering if he is on a septic system, & in a week or so we will be reading about the plumber being called to pump out the full septic.....

--->Paul

[donsgal]

Originally Posted by tamatik

well... the wife decided to clean out the freezer..all those plastic tubs of leftovers that are older than I am.We have MANY bears here so putting this stuff in the trash is not an option..I had a brainstorm.."lets flush them down the toilet".I,m told my brain only works on weekends and, even then, only on leap year or when the planets align with some misbegotten moon.
Apparently there was some chicken bones lurking in the mushroom soup.The toilet is plugged.Went downtown to buy a "snake".I already own one but."the clean fairy" aka the wife.has put it somewhere, unbeknownced to me.so I spend the afternoon on my hands and knees bowing to the porcelin throne gods.some movement but not enuf..Then comes the drano.stinky stuff.but the great white throne is not unfamiliar with aromatic offerings.I am.ghastly fumes.I ghasp and choke and make my way out to a safer vantage point to ponder this dilemma.
I call the plumber and he informs me he cannot make an appearnce til tomorrow.I am not amused..I inform him that if he comes now, he will only have to deal with a chicken bone, but, tomorrow he will have to wrestle with all manner of unearthly offerings.HE is not amused.
I inform the multitude,aka,the Family, that the great white beyond will not be in service for awhile.THEY are not amused.we wait.................

I'm sure glad *I* don't have to worry about bears. Whatever we don't eat gets winged into the back yard. Something comes along, and poof, it is gone the next day. What a burden to have to worry about it.

Did you defrost it first? I find it odd that a chicken bone would clog up the works.

Donsgal

[Deb&Al]

sorry for your misfortune. but this made me smile.
deb

[lorian]

My husband was helping out some older folks with their toilet problem and when he lifted it off it literally broke apart. Well one of the pieces fell on his wrist and cut it so severely he had to be rushed to the hospital by ambulance to be stitched up. Quite a scene, him lying on the floor, blood spurting out everywhere, the toilet lying around him in shattered disarray! He cut right thru a tendon to! He was so embarrassed at the hospital that he had to tell them about being attacked by a toilet. The scar looks like he tried to commit suicide.
He absolutely HATES the thought of fixing toilets now!!!

[tamatik]

we,re on town pipes.When I bought this place about 11 yrs ago.the toilet was slow,,very slow.,I called the town and they said the lines were plugged from a neighbours tree growing about 40 ft from the line.I was skeptical.They told me if it was plugged "here" they would pay..if it was plugged "there"..I would pay.pointing to a spot on the lawn.They came and dug it up..It was blocked by tiny hairlike roots from the tree and childrens legos and feminine hygeine products.It was afoot on "my side" $1800 later I could flush away.I hate this toilet.but today it seems to be working.

[fordson major]

that magic throne works well when maintained properly! never dump some thing down the toilet that could plug the pipe or poison the system either a septic or town pipes, can get expensive fast!