New Rules

Everybody who has kids probably knows that every once in a while your kids will force you to make a new household rule that never occurred to you before. You know, like:

1. Don't put socks in the kitchen sink disposal.

2. Don't put your boogers on the ceiling.

Well anyway, at the Big A household, we had to make a new one last night. Last night my wife started up the dishwasher before going to bed. Lucky for me, I stayed up another 15 minutes or so. On my way to bed, I noticed that the kitchen sink was completely full of dirty water. Ugh. The dishwasher was backing up into the sink which means we have a clogged drain. Before tackling the drain I wanted to dump the water out of the sink, so I got out the mop bucket and started carrying buckets of water to the bathroom and dumping them in the toilet.

After my third bucket, I noticed an odd object floating in the toilet. What was it? Well, if you guessed "Lightbulb", then I would say you have a very active imagination. I would also say you were 100% correct. Not a full-size one, but a nightlight bulb - small enough to go down the drain, but certainly large enough to cause problems.

The irony is that the lightbulb did not actually cause the clog. In fact, I can't even be sure that it was in the sink - it may have already been in the toilet. But does it really matter? Neither place is the right place to dispose of lightbulbs.

So anwyway, the Big A household has a new rule - "No lightulbs in the toilets or sinks".

(And yes, the two rules listed at the beginning of the post are not merely funny examples - they are real rules in our house)