What Not to Flush Down a Toilet

With all of the other common sense issues I've had to deal with at my house, this one takes the cake. Only because B-fresh and I had mentioned to our other two roommates, on multiple occasions, not to do this. They had been using paper towels for toilet paper. They had been doing this because they kept forgetting to go buy toilet paper for themselves to use. We all agreed, before we moved in, that we would buy our own toilet paper. We didn't want one of us always being the one person responsible enough to buy it, so we decided to put it on each other to buy our own toilet paper. 

Eventually, we came to regret that decision. I remember one week before the accident happened, I saw Markie Mark and Kaveman leaving the bathroom with paper towels in their hands. Each time i mentioned to them not to be using paper towels as toilet paper because they don't dissolve like toilet paper does down the drain. Both of them acted like I was just trying to be rude and trying to control how they wipe their ass. 

They obviously didn't heed any of my warnings. One day while Kaveman was taking a shower, he said he heard the toilet starting to make a bubbling noise. The toilet had taken in too many paper towels for it to handle and now everything that had been flushed was getting stuck in the pipes. That is until their was no room left in the pipes. The bubbling noise he heard was the pipes pushing out all the feces and urine from the past couple days out onto our bathroom floor. 

The smell was overwhelming. Imagine driving by the water treatment plants during peak hours and sticking your nose right where they bring in the sewer water. It was horrendous, words do not justify the stench was pouring out from our bathroom. Thankfully, B-fresh acted quickly and called a plumber. 

When the plumber was finished snaking the toilet, he found the source of the problem. Just as we suspected, there was a giant glob of paper towels clumped together, creating a impassable bottleneck in the pipes. 

Lesson to take away from this: Do not use paper towels as toilet paper!