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New indoor swimming pool
« on: September 05, 2012, 06:43:42 pm »
If you have very young kids, this is probably worth a read.

The first thing out of my wife's mouth was something like, "What the  :censored:?!" :timebomb:

Now, my wife tends to overreact. Dog  :puke on the floor it's,  "What the  :censored:?!"

Our mortgage is :bump to another company, it's  "What the  :censored:?!"

Quite honestly it gets :oldman

This time though, she's :hissy: for me to wake up.

I look at the clock and it's 5 AM. I don't give a :badmood:.

If it isn't a new video game, a fire/flood/thief in the imaginary game room, someone kidnapping the kids, or the winning lotto numbers, I'm not getting up at 5 AM and whatever it is, is going to have to wait.  :blank:

She :blowup:,  "What the  :censored:?!" again and tells me to get ---my bottom--- up. 

At this point, I can tell I'm not going to sleep until I :bat

So I swing my feet down and  :gobama out into the hallway and into a pool of water. Gee... that's awfully cold I thought.

:gobama past the kitten standing on top of the chair (how long has she been stuck there? I thought) and make my way to the bathroom and the source of the water.

It takes a couple of seconds before my brain realizes that I'm standing in nearly an inch of water and the toilet is overflowing. My wife is  :angry: at me at this point.

It's weird, but I'm as cool as a  :afro:.

Yeah, both kids rooms, the entire hallway, the bathroom and 1/3 of the living room is floating in about an inch of water yet I was wishing that I thought to purchase a wet/dry vac when they were on sale.  :-\

I take care of the source of water and reach in tank to fix the problem there (stuck floater), reach into the bowl (while my wife  :puke at the thought of the "dirty" water) and pull out a HUGE wad of toilet paper my 2 year old tried to flush down. Then I hunt down the carpet vacuum and proceed to vacuum up about six gallons of water.

My little two year old wakes up and she knows she's guilty as hell and runs from the  :police: and hides, buck naked I might add, on our bed with her butt in the air.

My 4 (5 this month) son is  :dizzy: as hell and picks his way through the water and watches the whole thing unfold with some :jerry. Demanding his morning chocolate milk of course.

My wife is throwing every towel we have on the mess until I stop her and tell her :bat

Of course she :whap me and we :hissy

but I :burgerking: in the end and she takes the kids to daycare and goes to work.

The damage is astonishing. My faux wood floor is buckling and I spent all morning tearing up the carpet in the kids rooms.  :banghead:

Normally I'd rather do anything but go to work, but this is one of those rare instances that I kind of rather be doing anything else. I guess I'll have to drill an exploratory hole in a couple of places (under the countertops in the bathroom for instance) to see if I have some sort of water breach there. I figure I must have upwards of twenty gallons or more of water in the house.

And I'm not even mad.  ???

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Re: New indoor swimming pool
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2012, 09:07:50 pm »
Yikes!

Beware the carpet mushrooms...

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Re: New indoor swimming pool
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2012, 05:03:35 pm »
That's grim, dude. I did that as a kid. Not as bad a mess, but my dad was pissed. It's usually girls who do this sort of thing, because they aren't taught how to use toilet paper. I don't know where it started, but...they just wad it up in masses, and then let their daughters pick up the same malpractice. My dad schooled me right and I remember to this day. Not because he beat me. He didn't. Because of the economy of it all.
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Re: New indoor swimming pool
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2012, 06:10:36 pm »
If you have very young kids, this is probably worth a read.

The first thing out of my wife's mouth was something like, "What the  :censored:?!" :timebomb:

Now, my wife tends to overreact. Dog  :puke on the floor it's,  "What the  :censored:?!"

Our mortgage is :bump to another company, it's  "What the  :censored:?!"

Quite honestly it gets :oldman

This time though, she's :hissy: for me to wake up.

I look at the clock and it's 5 AM. I don't give a :badmood:.

If it isn't a new video game, a fire/flood/thief in the imaginary game room, someone kidnapping the kids, or the winning lotto numbers, I'm not getting up at 5 AM and whatever it is, is going to have to wait.  :blank:

She :blowup:,  "What the  :censored:?!" again and tells me to get ---my bottom--- up. 

At this point, I can tell I'm not going to sleep until I :bat

So I swing my feet down and  :gobama out into the hallway and into a pool of water. Gee... that's awfully cold I thought.

:gobama past the kitten standing on top of the chair (how long has she been stuck there? I thought) and make my way to the bathroom and the source of the water.

It takes a couple of seconds before my brain realizes that I'm standing in nearly an inch of water and the toilet is overflowing. My wife is  :angry: at me at this point.

It's weird, but I'm as cool as a  :afro:.

Yeah, both kids rooms, the entire hallway, the bathroom and 1/3 of the living room is floating in about an inch of water yet I was wishing that I thought to purchase a wet/dry vac when they were on sale.  :-\

I take care of the source of water and reach in tank to fix the problem there (stuck floater), reach into the bowl (while my wife  :puke at the thought of the "dirty" water) and pull out a HUGE wad of toilet paper my 2 year old tried to flush down. Then I hunt down the carpet vacuum and proceed to vacuum up about six gallons of water.

My little two year old wakes up and she knows she's guilty as hell and runs from the  :police: and hides, buck naked I might add, on our bed with her butt in the air.

My 4 (5 this month) son is  :dizzy: as hell and picks his way through the water and watches the whole thing unfold with some :jerry. Demanding his morning chocolate milk of course.

My wife is throwing every towel we have on the mess until I stop her and tell her :bat

Of course she :whap me and we :hissy

but I :burgerking: in the end and she takes the kids to daycare and goes to work.

The damage is astonishing. My faux wood floor is buckling and I spent all morning tearing up the carpet in the kids rooms.  :banghead:

Normally I'd rather do anything but go to work, but this is one of those rare instances that I kind of rather be doing anything else. I guess I'll have to drill an exploratory hole in a couple of places (under the countertops in the bathroom for instance) to see if I have some sort of water breach there. I figure I must have upwards of twenty gallons or more of water in the house.

And I'm not even mad.  ???

 :laugh2: :laugh2: :applaud:

Been there and done that.
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Re: New indoor swimming pool
« Reply #4 on: September 06, 2012, 06:15:32 pm »
And the award for the 2012 most ingenious and consistent use of smilies in a single post goes to.... ME!

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Cereally tho, enjoy the new pool, the seasons almost over as it is. 

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Re: New indoor swimming pool
« Reply #5 on: September 06, 2012, 06:18:48 pm »
I really hate how houses are built nowadays. Last spring melt my mother found a freaking stream in the basement in her 50 year old house. We just moved her ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- out of the way, removed a wall panel and waited until summer dry to patch the entrance point. ZERO damage. Now this house, our entire laminate flooring is buckling even where there was no water on top. Damn you capillary action! My wife is estimating the damage to be higher than our insurance deductable so I'm waiting for a call from the adjuster.

That's grim, dude. I did that as a kid. Not as bad a mess, but my dad was pissed. It's usually girls who do this sort of thing, because they aren't taught how to use toilet paper. I don't know where it started, but...they just wad it up in masses, and then let their daughters pick up the salpractice. My dad schooled me right and I remember to this day. Not because he beat me. He didn't. Because of the economy of it all.

My step daughter does something similar, literally rolls up a wad of paper. Even using a HUGE wad of TP for the bloody stuff. The pads come with pouches for that express purpose. Pisses me off my wife won't teach her proper. Now my 2 year old is terrified it will happen again so she stands there and watches the john to make sure it all goes down and the cycle completes. I'll be stepping in to show how TP should be used.

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Re: New indoor swimming pool
« Reply #6 on: September 06, 2012, 09:21:35 pm »
Ahh...the stuck floater combined with a clogged toilet.  Caused silently by a child.  At night.  There aren't very many storms that get more perfect than that.

I always watch and make sure it goes down.  It takes a few seconds.  And I don't even use that much paper.  I hate the people that use giant wads.

Incidentally, I've spent the last two days digging a hole to the water pipe that enters the house.  Had a very small leak during the last rain.  Fixing it before it becomes a bigger problem.  Got discouraged yesterday, because I thought I was at the correct depth, but apparently the pipe angles upwards.  5 feet down into the ground at the wall.  Got it patched today after I spent a couple more hours finally locating it and cleaning around it.  Stuffed some hydraulic cement into the hole, then covered it with a bunch of roof cement.  Will fill the hole back up tomorrow.  My thighs hurt...
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Re: New indoor swimming pool
« Reply #7 on: September 06, 2012, 10:10:53 pm »
Man I feel your pain.  Water in the house is the worst.  At least you seem to have a healthy sense of humor about it. 

We just had a garbage disposal spring a leak.  The good news was that my wife caught it before we had a major mess.  The bad news is that I'm now too big to get under the sink.  I had to have my daughter get under the sink and plug the new disposal in.   :laugh2:

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Re: New indoor swimming pool
« Reply #8 on: September 09, 2012, 03:52:10 pm »
Gray's a folder.

It is a kung fu thing I do.


Or just flush twice.


Not in some cases...let alone some people's turds. Someone I knew semi-recently, she had constipation, and when it finally came out, it was so dense it just plugged the hole. Adobe mud poop. I had to cut them in pieces with a long plastic strip I found round her house for them to go down.
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