I had to get out of bed to help the roomie
By ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (64169)
United States
January 18, 2008 9:17pm CST
Well, I had crawled into be, and was trying to go to sleep when the roomie called me. She'd gone to the back bathroom to get a towel for Cujo, one of the dogs to lay on & discovered that the toliet was just over flowing all over the place!
She had to shut it off at the shutoff valve, bail it out some and we used over half the towels in the house to sop up most of the water on the floor!
So now I'm up telling you guys about it rather than being all cozy in my bed!
I'm headed back now, but MAN!!
So, how many of you get these emergencies that drag you out of your nice warm bed to trying to stay dry while you help clean up a BIG mess?
I hope you guys are staying warm!
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11 responses
@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
19 Jan 08
I know its just a little bump, not a car swollowing pot hole, but you've just gotta hate it when it happens. Yeah, I always appreciate it when the darn things work right. The roomie wants one of those with the power flushers, I want one that flushes itself AND has warm seats!
@SViswan (12051)
• India
19 Jan 08
With little kids in the house, I've got used to being dragged out of bed with 'so-called' emergencies...which ranges from 'I can't find my yellow crayon' to 'Mama...the baby just threw up all over the bed!'
The most annoying part is when my husband gets me out of bed to change a diaper when it's his turn to take care of baby! He'll do anything but change a diaper if he can help it.
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@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
19 Jan 08
Yet ANOTHER reason I chose to not be a mother!
Yet ANOTHER reason I so admire a GOOD mother - obviously you fall into that camp! Congradulations!
I just think a person that is willing to do all the work to raise happy, healthy, well adjusted children is well on the road to saint-hood!
Obviously, I'm not..... I just raise happy, healthy cats - well adjusted? Some come with a lot of baggage, from either being born to poor "teenage" mothers like Solo, or from feral mothers like Star or from whatever their internal wiring has for them, like Scamp.
@SViswan (12051)
• India
21 Jan 08
lol...thanks!
But personally, I feel sticking to what you believe is more important than having babies and raising them. I believe in having my kids and raising them and that's what I do...but you don't like it and that's your choice...just stick to it and don't let ANYONE drag you out of bed to clean a kid's mess...lol
I never knew I had so much patience in me till I had a child...really everyone I know is surprised at the transformation. Earlier if anyone tried to get me out of bed to clean a mes, I'd just tell them to leave it till morning.
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@AmbiePam (120692)
• United States
19 Jan 08
Oh gross! What a thing to get pulled out of bed for. Cujo, huh? I like it, lol. I think the thing I hate getting pulled out of bed for is when the doorbell rings. Not only do I have to go get it, but I have to get some kind of clothing on over my night clothes. And then by the time I get there, a lot of times they are already gone!
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@k1tten (2315)
• United States
15 Nov 08
Oh geez, that is pretty bad. I wasn't in bed but I was just getting out of the shower when my problem happened. I came out of the shower to hear a dripping sound. Thinking the faucet in the kitchen was off I went to investigate. Low and behold it wasn't the faucet it was the hood above the stove that was dripping water along with the cabnet around it. Not believing what I was seeing I went and got my partner who tells me just moments before she was in the kitchen and that wasn't happening when she was in there.
So, getting dressed quite quickly from being in a towel I went to our front desk to tell them what was going on since that was kinda an emergency. They call maintenence in and one guy comes in to look at it first. He calls another guy in to come look at it. Well, he comes in and looks confused as anything. He in turn calls someone else to come in and look at it just to proove he's probably not nuts.
Needless to say, the leak had stopped, we've stumped three maintenence in one night and my partner and I think we live in a possessed apartment. We're expecting the walls to drip blood at any moment.
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@ersmommy1 (12587)
• United States
19 Jan 08
I have a dog. a cat a hubby and a 4 year old. The animals occasionally get sick. Hubby snore. And all sorts of things can get you out of bed. Even "mommy I threw up". Glad you'd stayed dry and got back to bed. That's the part that feels good. Always easier getting in bed than out.
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@Trace86 (5030)
• United States
19 Jan 08
I have had to get out of my cozy bed to see what my wild and crazy kitty-cat was up to because she was making so much noise. She likes to chase balls of paper around. One night about 2 am, she was making so much noise and meowing at my bathroom door which I keep closed because of the light from the window. I opened the door and in she went and tried to get behind the cabinet. I moved the cabinet and there was a mouse! It took forever to catch it and toss it outside. By the time I got back to bed, it was 4ish. I have to get up for work at 6. At least I know my house will not be over-run by mice.
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@slickcut (8140)
• United States
19 Jan 08
I hate when that happens..I have had leaks like this before, water flooded all over the place and what a mess that is..It happened in my kitchen one time when a pipe broke under the sink and we had to run out to the street and turn the main line off, then had to get it fixed before we coild turn the water back on,what a mess.I think i used every towel we had trying to dry up all that water..
@blackbriar (9075)
• United States
30 Jan 08
It's been years since I've had a toliet overflow on me like that. Last time being we discovered a raquet ball stuck tight in the toliet drain. Took alot of creative thinking to get it out at that. Still have no idea how in the world it ended up in the toliet let alone being flushed w/o anyone seeing it.
@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
30 Jan 08
Now that is weird. Where my roommate lived before her roommate dropped a soda cap down the john & stopped it up. That house was built with something like seconds. I think when the gal was in the hospital last year, her aunt came over and cleaned the place up, got the plumber out & hopefully fixed the whole place!
@Adoniah (7512)
• United States
19 Jan 08
I used to manage 60 rental houses and a 72 unit storage warehouse. Yup, I've gotten up in the middle of the night a few.. times to drive miles to shut off a valve because the tenant couldn't seem to bend down that far to do it themselves. Then they want YOU to pay for the damage and mop the house. Which I ususally did.
@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
19 Jan 08
Wow! 60!
I know I can't get my landlord to pay for anything - because I pay for that stuff to keep my rent down. That and I can't expect MOM to pay for that stuff.
Turns out the OTHER roomie messed with the toliet yesterday unknown to either of the other of us, this is probably what caused the problem.
@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
19 Jan 08
I'm glad your staying warm, the sun is out today, so it might actually get to the 50's. I don't like the heat, but I've gotten so where I can't stand the cold either... Getting old stinks!
Good luck with keeping the toliet from overflowing at your place!











