What's the weirdest thing.... - (in tribute to Claudia)

MommyToAshley wrote: you've lost down the drain or the toilet?

Or, in Ed's case, what's the weirdest thing you have found?


I dropped my car keys down the toilet in a restaurant once.

skinkybaby replied: Grace had left one of her little books on the back of the toilet once. After I got done going to the bathroom one day I accidentally knocked the book into the commode when I went to flush. And since I had just used the bathroom I wasn't about to reach in and grab the book. Needless to say I got a stern talking to when my husband found out how the toilet broke

redchief replied: I've found electric toothbrushes, a bag of change (one of those canvas bags with the draw string... money was littered all through the sewer, several bars of soap in the same toilet at the same time, the following week we did a repeat performance - cute kid; good thing because otherwise I think his mom would have killed him. I've found matchbox and hotwheels cars, a spool of dental floss, tampons (toilets really don't like these things), sanitary napkins (see tampons), toenail clippers, tennis balls, toilet paper rolls, toilet paper roll holders, and both of the previous at the same time on one occasion. The two oddest things I've found are sunglasses and cell phones (2x on both).

I'm sure there are others. I've got almost 30 years of toilet spelunking experience to draw from.

Kirstenmumof3 replied: We found a toothbrush and a comb (pick) once at our old apartment.

redchief replied: Toothbrushes and combs are normal finds here. I forgot about the Barbie doll I found once. I had to dismember her to remove her.

mckayleesmom replied: Lets see

A brush
Soap...jammed really good in there
A glass candle holder...I had to break it to get it out
A potato
keys
bottle of hair spray
Toys of all kinds
Mckaylee's dinner.....and we thought she ate her veggies....

redchief replied: Brianne, I've never had a potato. Affirmative on everything else, including kids' veggies, but never a whole potato.

mummy2girls replied: well this is not a lost story but i still wanted to share...

my friends little girl who was 3 at the time was playing in the bathroom. and she decided to stand in the toilet. and her foot got stuck. the fire and recue crew had to come and take apart the toilet to get her foot out. she even made the paper.. this was over 15 years ago...

kimberley replied: a tennis ball?
a potato???



nothing too weird here.. soap, whole roll of tp Jade

mummy2girls replied: and my old boss use to flush his humungus dead fish down the toilet. and about a couple days after the toilet kept overflowing whenever someone used it. the plumber came and found the fish had expanded and plugged the drain... so no flushing fish down the drain guys!

5littleladies replied: I can't think of anything strange that has gone into our toilet (knock on wood ) but my younger brother once got a 3 inch bouncy ball stuck in my parents toilet. We didn't have a working toilet for a week-No one could figure out what was wrong with the dumb thing until our pastor came over and took the toilet out to the front lawn and popped the ball out. I was 10 and mortified that our toilet was outside for everyone to see!

luvmykids replied: I flushed a small reptile of some kind, I can't think of what it was but it was my roommates, it died while we were gone for spring break. It was a nasty thing alive, I actually liked it better dead.

Colt once unraveled a whole box of floss and tried to flush it. Our plumber didn't think it was too humorous.

And btw-cheerios don't flush, they just float. I found that out the hard way as a kid

Brias3 replied: I dropped my cell phone into a fraternity bathroom one night while visiting an old boyfriend at his house when I was in college.....EWWW. To make matters worse, it was the day and age of the bigger Zack Morris style phones (well maybe not THAT big ) so fishing it out was an even yuckier mess. Luckily, I didn't flush. The kids have flushed random small toys down the toilet before. Mason dumped two fresh rolls of tp in the toilet bowl a few days ago too

Nina J replied: I dropped a camera in a public toilet a few years ago.

DH tried to flush a chicken schnitzel down the toilet . He put in in there, flushed and walked out without bothering to see if it went down. It didn't, so I had to get it out. This was before DH found out where the trash can was. jk, I don't know why he did it.