Plumbing Problems

Johnny thought that I had officially gone off the Costco deep end when he saw the size of the bag of baking soda that I bought yesterday.  Yes I know that you only need one teaspoon for most recipes...but it was such a good deal!  Actually, I've been using it to attempt to unclog my drains.  People have been raving all over Pinterest at how baking soda and vinegar unclogs drains.  So I tried it out, and that combined with some plunging unclogged two of my more pesky drains.  The peskiest has yet to be beat.



After doing this little science experiment, I had to run hot water through all the drains.  And as I was running around my upstairs turning on all of the faucets, I couldn't help but think of a prank that was pulled on my roommates and me freshman year of college.

I answered our room phone one night around nine, you know when professionals usually call dorms, and on the other end was someone from the janitorial department of Wheaton College.  Apparently there was a large clog in one of the pipes, and they needed everyone on our floor to turn on all the sinks and showers at the same time.  I hung up the phone and was skeptical, but who was I to question the authorities?  We decided as a room that we had nothing to lose, so we turned on both sinks and the shower and flushed the toilet a few times for good measure.  We later found out that the call was from Matt Jantzen, who was not a plumbing professional but a fellow Crusader Thunder Thunderie student.  Who would have thought?

There was also a time that my apartment's toilet was clogged, so I called my boyfriend to bring a plunger so that we could unclog it.  After I called him, I looked at my roommate Elizabeth and said, "I bet you $5 that Johnny walks the whole 15 minutes here carrying the plunger in his hand."  She owed me $5.