“Mom,” he gasped, pacing the bathroom as the water began to form a small, glistening lake around his bare feet. “The upstairs toilet is clogged. It’s… it’s winning.”
“From chest height,” he muttered. “This is insane.”
He hadn’t. The last time he’d used a plunger, he’d somehow managed to crack the porcelain of a toilet in his college dorm. He was asked never to return to that dorm. upstairs toilet clogged
He poured. The hot water cascaded into the already full bowl. For a moment, nothing happened. The toilet seemed to digest the offering. Then, with a roar like a waking lion, the water level dropped . The bowl emptied with a violent, slurping gasp.
Leo Finch, a man who believed his biggest problem that morning would be deciding between oat or almond milk for his coffee, stared at the screen. He lived in the top floor of a converted Victorian house. He owned the top floor. The “upstairs toilet” was, unequivocally, his. “Mom,” he gasped, pacing the bathroom as the
“Yes!”
His mother, who lived three hundred miles away in a ranch house where the only thing that ever clogged was the garbage disposal (and that was always a fork), sighed a sigh of profound, hereditary disappointment. “Did you use the plunger?” “This is insane
“Dear Mr. Finch, the upstairs toilet appears to be clogged. Water is now coming through my light fixture. Best, Vera.”