Toilet Torment

I think we may be cursed, because toilet problems follow us from place to place in Hong Kong.

Sure, everyone experiences the odd clog now and then, usually solved with a quick stab with a plunger, or in serious cases, a snake, but we are plagued with nastiness disproportionate to the averages.

This time I thought that the septic tank was merely full, but even after it was emptied the toilets kept backing up. That pointed to something in the pipes, which the honeywagon guys were supposed to have checked and cleaned. They failed.

Opening the cap on the outdoor toilet outflow pipe revealed the problem, which took a high-powered blast of water from a hose to dislodge, after which came a gush of grossness I need not describe here. That in turn required a fair degree of cleanup, including collecting the larger bits and then splashing disinfectant everywhere before hosing the rest into the drains.

I'm just glad all of that happened outside instead of indoors, which would have compounded my disgust one-hundredfold.

The question of course is: why does this crap keep happening to us?

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