Saturday, May 9, 2009
Parenting Problem You Probably Don't Have #47
So the boys' bathtub has been backed up for a few days. We tried Drano. We tried Liquid Plummer. We snaked it. We finally determined that a little boy (who we'll call Jacob, just for shits and giggles), who has been finding it amusing to put on a pull-up and climb into the bathtub, managed to get the gel stuff from the inside of the pull-up down the drain. You know, that stuff that expands when it gets wet to keep the pull-ups from leaking. It also expands into an unmoveable glob down in bathtub drains, too. Fun. We finally put my drain clog grabber down there to wiggle it lose and sucked it up with the shop vac. Engineers are smart that way. And patient. Who knew?