tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33509930.post859030744023591902..comments2008-09-22T19:50:43.476-06:00The Frugal Shrinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14648381912678026120noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33509930.post-23021254526199038082008-09-22T19:50:00.000-06:002008-09-22T19:50:00.000-06:00LOL @ your stories! Glad to know I'm not the only one. ;)Tessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14648381912678026120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33509930.post-85359827605283279532008-09-20T10:39:00.000-06:002008-09-20T10:39:00.000-06:00Dear Tessa,<BR/>We ALL should be plumbers if we want to get rich. But most of us couldn't handle the disgusting-ness. <BR/>Once I was taking a nap and dreamed I heard water running. As I awoke I figured it was just the sound of my upstairs neighbors using the bathroom. Well, kind of: Water was pouring through the ceiling! It turned out that his kids were visiting and one of them clogged up the toilet. No one noticed. Like you, I had to take everything out of the bathroom, scrub with bleach water and wash all the towels in case any of the water had hit them.<BR/>As an apartment manager, I've had to deal with only two nasty toilet incidents, but several times I've had to fix really nasty garbage disposals -- as in, they clogged and stopped working but the tenants didn't tell me until days had gone by. I'd be working with a disposal full of rotting food.<BR/>I asked one tenant how long this had been going on. "Oh, it stopped working four or five days ago. I finally called you because I couldn't stand the smell any more."<BR/>I swear.<BR/>Some things really ARE best left to the professionals.Donna Freedmanhttp://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/smartspendingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33509930.post-86707352605866866712008-09-19T15:27:00.000-06:002008-09-19T15:27:00.000-06:00Ah, I paid $95 last week for a plumber to stop my toilet from running like crazy.Gingernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33509930.post-49778537127355355452008-09-18T20:49:00.000-06:002008-09-18T20:49:00.000-06:00oh lord do i feel your disgusting pain. our basement wall caved in w/all the flooding this year, and with it, it cracked the sewer line. for weeks there was nothing i could do about the stench of rotten toilet air. it was so embarassing. all is well now, but ew. just ew.Lacyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10260855014452559160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33509930.post-86609400275717067122008-09-18T17:26:00.000-06:002008-09-18T17:26:00.000-06:00EW! I'm sorry for you!<BR/>LisaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com