It started with Billy Mays...

You know that Oxi-Clean guy? The one who shouts about everything?



Yeah, that guy.

So he's hocked everything from Orange Glo to Hercules Hooks, including a toilet-cleaning system called Kaboom Scrub Free, a thing you hook to your toilet tank that continuously cleans your toilet for you. We bought one for each bathroom a couple months ago. I would definitely recommend getting one. They totally work. But that's not what this blog post is about.

The time had come to change the tablets. Adam had dropped in the refill in his own toilet a few days ago and came to do mine. I was in bed, watching tv. I heard a ruckus in the bathroom, but didn't worry until he yelled to get towels. While disengaging the Kaboom, he managed to break the flapper thing-a-ma-bob and sprayed water all over the place. Result - wet bathroom, non-functional toilet.

After he left work this morning he stopped at Menards and picked up a toilet repair kit. After clearing out the bathroom he started to disassemble the tank. He pulled out piece after piece of toilet part covered in black goo. After getting everything out, he determine my handle wouldn't work with the new flusher system. Apparently they've changed the way they make toilets since 1981. Hmmm. Imagine that. So it was determined that it would just be easier to get a whole new toilet than try and rig something to work with what I had.

So, yeah.



This is all your fault, Billy. If you weren't such a good salesman, we never would have had to go out and buy a new toilet today.