Throwing Money Down the Toilet

Everyone makes mistakes, sure, we all do.  But the mistakes that really get me sometimes are the really silly, dumb mistakes that I could have avoided, and that end up costing a pretty penny.  What happened? I’ll tell you.

I was in the bathroom and went to grab a new toilet paper roll, and I accidentally hit a little bottle of air freshener, it landed in the toilet, while it was flushing...it was a domino effect of all these random things happening in succession.  In the beginning I thought no big deal I will just plunge the toilet, no luck. I thought okay I will get a glove, stick my hand in and get the bottle out, also no luck. Then I started to panic. I called a plumber and that afternoon he came and told me either this would cost me a few hundred dollars if he could get it out, or it would cost me a few hundred dollars for him to try to get it out, and then the cost of a new toilet plus installation.  Ah!

I was so mad at myself and kept thinking if I could go back in time and just do one thing differently or if I had acted just a little bit faster or had faster reflexes I wouldn’t be in such a pickle.  The plumber came back the next day, after doing basically surgery on my toilet (he had so many crazy tools that did all these different things), he got the bottle out! I was really happy, more thrilled than I thought I would ever be to have a toilet surgeon at my house, freeing this bottle from my toilet, and to have my working toilet back.  I happily paid him by this point and he went on his merry way. I thought I saw a little smug look or a chuckle a few times when the plumber talked to me, but I really didn’t care.  

So, I have to say I was hard on myself for literally throwing money down the toilet.  But mistakes happen. And lesson learned, always keep the toilet seat down!