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.