Does anyone else look in the toilet before you flush or am I just weird and all alone on this one? You know, like looking in the Kleenex before you totally crumple it up and throw it away. I *KNOW* other people have done this because I’ve seen them. The toilet thing… well, I’m not planning on watching anybody anytime soon. I just have a hard time believing that among the five billion people on this planet that I would be the only one. So this leads me to think that if I’m not, then maybe someone else has noticed the same thing I have with some toilets.
I’d swear they have a little porcelain trap door or something in the bottom.
Bear with me (yeah, ha ha, I said bear – get over it) here. When you are concentrating on your “effort” – let’s just leave it at that or who knows what search engines will pick me up for – and you receive the “plunk” sound of object meeting water, then you *know* that *something* is in the bowl. I mean, duh, right? So, you stand up, lean forward, whatever your style is, and before discarding cleaning materials into the bowl, you look to see what you accomplished. And you see… *nothing*! It’s almost like being cheated. C’mon, I did the work, now I want to just see the finished product before I move along! Like, 9 out of 10 times, there’s some evidence. It’s not like I want to take a snapshot or something, but when it’s there 9 times and then suddenly the 10th time nothing is there, well, aren’t you at least curious?
At first I just figured they rolled down and into the very back of the pipe but you just know from the tone of the “plunk” – and especially if there’s bottom splash factor in effect – that there is, like, *no way* it’s hiding in the back of the pipe! I don’t see any rabid carp swimming around the tidy-bowl-blue anywhere – so, what? Is this like the washer/dryer sock mystery? The missing pen dilemma?
Actually I hope not. I still sometimes think maybe it’d be fun to find the planet where all the missing clean socks go – all smelling of spring breeze dryer sheeets – sitting by mountainous piles of pens in all the colors of the rainbow. Now, however, if objects aren’t in the bowl and I havn’t flushed ’em, then I’ll wear one sock and go back to using pencils before I set one foot in any weird universal lost-and-found! So, yeah, I’m pushing for the porcelain trap door theory.
Thank you for pioneering this subject. I have never known how to write about or address this subject. Many a time I have looked in the bowl just before flushing thinking “I don’t remember eating that” or “This much stuff I hope it flushes”. I go back to my favorite line from comedian Ron “Tater Salad” White where he says, “have you ever taken a crap so big that your pants fit better”. So Yes, other people have toilet wonder issues like you
Hallelujah! Reaching out to the world to let people know they aren’t alone… *that* is why I blog. 😉
I liken this more to the conversation from Clerks…
“Did you ever try to [bleep] your own [reference to male genetalia]?”
Anyway, I have looked only on the basis that I worried about the level of tissue I used — thinking only then, crud! I wish I had flushed before loading the basin with so much paper. Otherwise, I am different that you two, in that I assume following the act that I don’t need to visually confirm that the act took place. I’ve been doing it for years and am quite sure that when I complete the process, that I have indeed done just that and that there isn’t a clever little turd troll taking my refuse for the crap harvest. That being written, I would say that I have questioned how my body sorts out what I eat when the noise made (not flatus) is strange.
You mentioned clink, plunk, which sounds more like change passing. I would worry about this, as I have, when you wonder — what the? When did I eat stones? I’m quite sure that it should be no more remarkable than any previous visit, yet … quickly flush the abberatnt thing, be it normal or alien.
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