It came from beneath the sink

[skydark]

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.



I get several call throughout the day from William, our manager, he's so very nice and apologetic. Yes they are coming, oops they can't fix it, calling a plumber, the plumber fixed it but he cut a foot and 1/2 hole in your wall, contractors tomorrow coming to fix wall. Yes ok, that's fine, at least the sink is fixed. So we come home, back into the open sewer. God it reeks. So we scrub the kitchen with clorox to cut the smell. The plumber pulled everything out from under the cabinet to get to the pipes and it was all piled on the kitchen floor.

Keen, a good time to sort it out! But first hakuyama decides the cabinet needs to be scrubbed out. After all, it's empty, a perfect opportunity to do so. Fine. Swell. Great. Who gets to do it? Me.

Haku: Here's some clorox, scrub it out good.
Me: Yes Master.
Haku: Hold your breath while you do it.
Me: Yes Master
Haku: You can be pretty inept at this sort of thing, don't breath the clorox.
Me: Yes Master

So I found out I'm pretty good at holding my breath.

Under the cabinet treasures!

Goo Gone Gel! Wait, it's not suppose to be a gel. *trash*
Over Cleaner, oh and another can of Oven Cleaner...what's this? More Oven Cleaner!
Yeah ok 8, I have 8 new sponges, I shouldn't have bought that 3 pack last week, but how was I too know?
4 empty cans of black flag, one can I think is black flag half full, the label has gone all funky. *keeper*
Over Cleaner!
3 ashtrays and a lighter from the last century. kewl.
Miracle Grow! And Miracle Grow! for tomatoes. Who are they fooling? They just put a tomato label on the box and up the price by 2.00. Any rube that buys Miracle Grow! for Tomatoes deserves to...wait, why do I have both?
A pair of bright yellow dish gloves like Dexter's Mom wears! KEEN! *quickly put them on*
Hmmm...this could be liquid plant food and then again it might not be, which plant has pissed me off and needs to be experimented on? It's that damn prickly pear cactus of hakuyama's. It's out to get me, I'll just keep this.

Haku: Why do you have on yellow dishwashing gloves?
Me: Uh...they're cool and my hands won't get wrinkly.
Haku: I see you haven't passed out from clorox fumes.
Me: No! (proudly) but I got a little dizzy.
Haku: Why do we have so much oven cleaner?

Ah! It's good to be alive!