Adrenaline still pumping

[rivkat]

Found a drowned rat in the toilet when I raised the lid. Its horrible staring eyes!

Okay, look, have a funny Onion story!

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[mecurtin]

OMG OMG OMG

So who's the tough one in your family, you or Z?

[saraht]

AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[rivkat]

That would be NOT ME. However, Z is on a trip. Fortunately it disappeared when I flushed. Apparently they are sometimes attracted through the sewers by the smell of food from kitchen drains, and when they find they can't get through to the kitchen sink they divert to bathrooms. ICK.

[rivkat]

No freakin' kidding! My son was fascinated and sort of sad that I disposed of it without showing him first.

[saraht]

I'm surprised little Miss T. didn't want to dispatch it herself! You know Batman would.

[rivkat]

She was exiled upstairs for nap, so did not get the chance to intervene.

[jadelennox]

Oh, man. Here, have a surreal youtube video to help your heartbeat slow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCMmmEEyOO0

[via_ostiense]

OMG that's disgusting. The existence of a *whole page* and a program dedicated to this problem (at least in Seattle) is disturbing. Very glad now that I don't have a garbage disposal, because EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. And that poor rat!

[eight_demands]

I remember hearing a story on This American Life about how they climb through the sewer lines, and still today I always close the toilet lid whenever I see it open.

[rivkat]

I close the toilet lid, and have taught the rest of the household to do so, because I read about the fine spray that emanates from a flushed toilet, which I don't want on my toothbrush or towels or really anything else in my bathroom. But now I am especially glad that I insist on this practice!

[rivkat]

Thank you! I had no idea a Slinky would do that.

[rivkat]

My understanding is that the rat would never get to the garbage disposal because there's a grate-type thing that prevents it from getting into the sink in the first place, thus triggering the bathroom diversion. But EWWWWWW is so right.

[arliss]

Eeek! I'm sorry? And ew!

I always insist on keeping the lid closed, ostensibly and publicly because I try to practice Feng Shui, but in reality because I'm an inveterate klutz and I'm tired of fishing tweezers and combs and toothbrushes (thereafter confined to scrubbing things NOT in my mouth) out of the toilet. H likes it open for easy access. Which, icky. Now, with the spray thing and the random rodentia, I have even more ammo on my side in this argument.

[the_shoshanna]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

I think I would NEVER PEE AGAIN.

[rivkat]

I actually had to force myself. It was not easy even though I knew I was being irrational.

[rivkat]

The spray thing was the killer argument in our household, because ick.

[lapillus]

Yikes!

[tehomet]

The poor thing. And poor you, finding it!