It came from beneath the sink

Our little trauma started sunday night. The water in the kitchen sink backed up. Well no biggie,right? Turn on the disposal, there is something in it I bet that is making the water back up. So with my trusty sidekick hakuyama at my side I hit the disposal switch. Wrong move.

Major backlash! And SOMETHING came up in the other sink (probably a branch or stick or whatever) that looked like a hand and it hit the drain and sank back down and the sink filled with water. @_@

After we were finished screaming like girls (which, techincally, we are) we realized we had major sink woes. So I call and leave a maintainance request with our apartment and go to work the following day. When we came home it was like walking into an open sewer. The house STANK. It permiated every room and in the sink, black water and sludge... and a little note on cheery yellow paper that said... 'Be back tomorrow!'. We stared at it dumbfounded, had no appetite for dinner and retreated to the screened in porch. Later that evening when we are brave enough to come back in and I slink off to my computer I hear hakuyama's dulcet tones rising in panic. "GET IN HERE!"

The black water in the sink is rising! With our intrepid ingenuity we grab a plastic pitcher and the garbage can, scoop it out and dump it in the tub, for a good 15 minutes. Finally it stops rising.

( And now...Day 2 )

Arnie and June

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