Beware, this post involves a lot of discussion around going to the bathroom, and in particular, me going to the bathroom.

So I got up this morning early and began to partake in my somewhat daily ritual.  Nothing out of the ordinary, did my business, flushed the toilet, went to wash my hands.  Then I noticed the toilet was plugged.  I thought to myself, why does this have to happen now?  Did I use too much paper?  Did I not hold down the handle on the toilet long enough?  Were there other forces at place here?

To my dismay, I discovered we were missing the most essential tool a bathroom should contain:  the plunger.  I waited a while, tried a series of flushing attempts, and to my surprise, I was eventually able to fix the problem without extreme measures which I would prefer not to think about and definitely not share with anyone.  So I was satisfied, I washed my hands once more, and thought the problem was over and done with.

But then, I noticed the toilet was not refilling with water.  There was not the usual dripping noise you hear immiediately after a flush is made.  I nuzzled the lid of the toilet off of the rivets and looked inside to see an empty tank.  Nothing inside.  My next thought was to check the sink, just to verify the water was in fact working.  I tried the sink, and also, no water coming out.  Not even a sound.  I then tried my third and final check and went into the kitchen sink.  Again, nothing.

So it was at this point that I decided it must have just been a conincidence that the water was not working in my building at the same time that I happened to have to go to the bathroom.  No big deal, maybe they were doing maintenance or something, and it was pretty early in the day.  So I went back to my computer and decided to wait it out.

An hour went by before I heard the sweet soft sound of water filling up a toilet tank.  It seemed to be back.  I went to the bathroom to look inside the tank.  This time, I did not see an empty tank but I saw something much worse.  The tank was full of very thick brown water, something nobody in the world wants to envision in their minds (I am doing this for you just so you can share my pain).  I tried flushing and this time the flushing did work, but the new water that came into the toilet was the same water I had just unfortunately witnessed inside the tank.

My next instinct was to again try the sink beside the toilet in the bathroom.  To my extreme shock, the water that came out of the faucet was also the very same thick soupy brown liquid that I had just seen in the toilet tank and then the toilet bowl.  Coming out of the friggin sink!!!!  To make matters even worse, this particular sink has a terrible drain, its slow, painfully slow.  So not only was this brown mixture coming out of the faucet but I had to view the water slowly going away down this piece of shit drain at the bottom of the sink.  Now what do I do?  Wait it out again?

To be continued…