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Post by madvicks on Mar 19, 2007 16:00:05 GMT -5
So, I had to share because I just feel so depressed! Our toilet seat/lid came loose so in the process of repairing it, and I use the term loosely, my Dad hit the seat/lid with a hammer and smashed the toilet itself. We now have nothing to go on and we only have a one toilet house! Its a 1970s Doulton loo and all the new ones are really low and have different connections so for the foreseeable future... Hello Bucket!
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Post by shep on Mar 19, 2007 16:26:55 GMT -5
Im sorry Vicks but when I started reading I began to laugh.
I do feel for you. I had to use a bucket when we having a new bath/shower/loo, and it was when I was pregnant and was getting up 10 times in the night!
I hope it gets fixed really soon - we do take sanitation for granted dont we?
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Post by grave on Mar 19, 2007 16:42:53 GMT -5
lmao, i laughed too. don't know what to say, but im sure that ur friends in your street will let you use their's hope it goes OK for you
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Post by madvicks on Mar 20, 2007 4:33:01 GMT -5
I dare say I'll see the funny side when its fixed but not now. I'm still having trouble bending from my surgery...!
As for using the neighbours, the bloke on the right is going senile and doesn't speak let alone open the front door and the family on the left work full time and will be gone until after 7pm.
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Post by Lior Knight on Mar 20, 2007 6:16:40 GMT -5
Sorry to hear that, Vicks. The title does makes it sound amusing but with your condition (after the surgery and all) it' really not funny. I hope your dad would fix it quickly enough.
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Post by Girl Power on Mar 20, 2007 20:29:16 GMT -5
HOLY CRAP! (Sorry.) That sucks beyond the telling. I can't imagine having to do that. I got upset when one of our toilets was clogged and we only had one left in the house. Having none, well that's just crazy! A bucket? *shudders* So it the problem that they can't get another one that will fit on your fixture? I mean, it seems like that would be fixable, simply out of sheer necessity. Take that hammer away from your dad. Hammers aren't good tools for fixing toilets. But I guess you know that already. My sympathy goes out to you. When I lived in South Korea when I was 12 we didn't have hot water for a whole month and I'm still traumatized by it. So using a bucket, well it's too much like Wesley tormenting Justine. You don't deserve that, even if she did.
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Post by madvicks on Mar 21, 2007 10:09:19 GMT -5
An update for you... The toilet dad took the hammer to is circa 1973 and therefore imperial measurements and fixtures. We got a new toilet, and tried to plum it is and it is kinda... Being new its lower (I feel like I am on a kids school loo) and in metric units so, the connections don't actually fit properly, so every time we flush the toilet we get an indoor waterfall downstairs in the kitchen! To get an actual toilet from an old stockist that is in Spearmint Green the same as the broken one and that is old 1970s stock will cost us get this £280 without carriage! For now we have pop bottles and basins under the toilet connections and dad is going to try and get it sorted this weekend. I have taken the liberty of hiding his hammers!
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Post by shep on Mar 21, 2007 12:00:04 GMT -5
At least you can pee in peace and comfort now
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Post by madvicks on Mar 21, 2007 14:08:24 GMT -5
We just had another 2 and a half hours of my day playing with the toilet... I'm hoping its done for good now.
I have told dad to think twice before looking for another challenge.
Tomorrow, I'm hiding the hammers. You cannot be too careful.
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Post by gerry on Mar 21, 2007 16:24:15 GMT -5
You mean you can't fix everything with a hammer? huh. . .who knew.
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Post by madvicks on Mar 21, 2007 16:26:56 GMT -5
You mean you can't fix everything with a hammer? huh. . .who knew. ROTFLMFAO... Nope! Apparently not...
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Post by madvicks on Mar 21, 2007 16:31:25 GMT -5
I forgot to say, in the process of fixing the toilet dad broke the toilet roll holder!
Its a shame I couldn't see tickets this week, it was better than Laurel and Hardy.
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Post by Girl Power on Mar 21, 2007 17:58:50 GMT -5
Too bad you didn't video it. You could have put it on YouTube and become famous!
Hammers and toilets: Unmixy things.
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