I no longer will clean toilets!

[Rob Lister]

(yes, this is in the right forum, I think)

I decided to do a little housecleaning today. The downstairs bath needed cleaning. I couldn't find the toilet-bowl cleaning stuff (comes in a goosenecked bottle for getting under the rim) so I used some clorox bleach instead (that works pretty well).

Well, I poured in about a cup and then I couldn't find the 'swisher' thingee one uses to scrub the inside. I found it in the upstairs bath next to, you guessed it, a bottle of toilet-bowl cleaner. Great. I take both downstairs and decide that since I now have the 'proper' cleaning solution, I might as well use it. So I squirted in a goodly amount around the inside of the bowl and begin to scrub well.

I no longer will clean toilets, or so demands the Mrs.

 

[Ladewig]

It might be useful to explain that mixing household bleach with toilet bowl cleaner can produce chlorine gas or other deadly gases.

Never mix cleaning products in that manner!

 

[Vitnir]

Nasty, you might want to see a doctor if you inhaled too much of that.

 

[El Greco]

Oh, this sounds like a nice experiment I've done when I was ...hmm... younger: "Oh, let's see what we can do by mixing a strong base with a strong acid... what do we have here... sodium hypochlorite... sulfuric acid... looks like these two will do..."

Luckily, we used to have a second bathroom.

 

[Beth]

With this title, I had to post this picture

This is my son, just starting work on his major household chore: cleaning the bathroom. He HATES it (look at that expression on his face) but mom insists, hoping that having to clean up the mess will result in improving his aim when using the toilet. Actually, I suspect his aim is fine and he just enjoys to hit things other than the toilet. At any rate, I hope he never tries the stunt you pulled! Bleach is kept out of his reach, so it won't be an issue until he's considerably taller and perhaps that won't be his chore by then. If he cleans up his aim, I'll let him take on something else instead.

 

[gnome]

(yes, this is in the right forum, I think)

I decided to do a little housecleaning today. The downstairs bath needed cleaning. I couldn't find the toilet-bowl cleaning stuff (comes in a goosenecked bottle for getting under the rim) so I used some clorox bleach instead (that works pretty well).

Well, I poured in about a cup and then I couldn't find the 'swisher' thingee one uses to scrub the inside. I found it in the upstairs bath next to, you guessed it, a bottle of toilet-bowl cleaner. Great. I take both downstairs and decide that since I now have the 'proper' cleaning solution, I might as well use it. So I squirted in a goodly amount around the inside of the bowl and begin to scrub well.

I no longer will clean toilets, or so demands the Mrs.

Bill Cosby would applaud!

 

[Rob Lister]

Re: Re: I no longer will clean toilets!

Bill Cosby would applaud!

Yes. Mrs Cosby, like Mrs Lister, would not.

Needless to say, I survived.

gag-gag-gag, went the Lister.

[think mode]Wow, this toilet bowl stuff is pretty powerful![/think]

Choke-choke-choke, said I, almost out loud.

Flush quickly. Turn on fan. Open all windows in the downstairs.

"What the F@# is that," came the voice from above (er...upstairs bedroom).

But I don't have to clean toilets ever again!

Always the bright side.

 

[Rob Lister]

With this title, I had to post this picture

This is my son, just starting work on his major household chore: cleaning the bathroom. He HATES it (look at that expression on his face) but mom insists, hoping that having to clean up the mess will result in improving his aim when using the toilet. Actually, I suspect his aim is fine and he just enjoys to hit things other than the toilet. At any rate, I hope he never tries the stunt you pulled! Bleach is kept out of his reach, so it won't be an issue until he's considerably taller and perhaps that won't be his chore by then. If he cleans up his aim, I'll let him take on something else instead.

THAT was a Reader's Digest shoe-in. Sure to get you the $300 accepted-submission payment should you send it in.

 

[LostAngeles]

Damn it, just get the toilet brushes with the disposable head and the cleaner built in. They're miracles, I tell you.

 

[Dr. Imago]

... hoping that having to clean up the mess will result in improving his aim when using the toilet. Actually, I suspect his aim is fine and he just enjoys to hit things other than the toilet.

Sadly, I don't think (for several reasons) that your ulterior motive will meet it's intended consequence. We (yes, us grown men too) occassionally "miss" for reasons we often can't quite explain.

-TT

 

[jj]

NOTICE: I AM NOT A DOCTOR!!!

Err, depending on what you mixed with what (exact products) you might have created stuff that can continue to do damage for up to 48 hours.

If you feel any chest problems, hie thyself to the doc. Perhaps a precautionary trip is called for anyhow.

 

[Orangutan]

Eh?

Arn't toilets self cleaning?


O.

 

[Red Siegfried]

Damn it, just get the toilet brushes with the disposable head and the cleaner built in. They're miracles, I tell you.

Get those deals where the head is made of paper so it's not only disposable, it's flushable. Some brands have a disposable head, but you can't flush it because it's made of plastic or something like that. I swear whoever invented disposable flushable easy-replace toilet brush heads can have my baby.

Now, self cleaning toilets are next. I mean self cleaning toilets that actually work, not just some lame tablet you drop in that makes you think your toilet is clean by coloring the water blue.

I want a toilet so clean I could literally eat off of it, and would enjoy it since it would in actuality be cleaner than the plates I use, or even my mouth, or the food itself. I want a self cleaning toilet so clean it's even cleaner than Mr. Tidy McSanitary, winner of the annual "Cleanest Human Being on The Planet of Cleanstar Seven, Cleanest World in the Known Universe of Clean" right after he takes his Saturday night bath.

Yeah, now that's clean.

 

[Rat]

Eh?

Arn't toilets self cleaning?


O.

Having never lived alone, as such, I can confirm that toilets are, in fact, self-cleaning.

And I have a magic underwear drawer.

Cheers,
Rat.

 

[malaka]

I no longer will clean toilets, or so demands the Mrs.

There was an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond where this is referred to as "selective incompetence". Ray does a horrible job at folding the laundry, so he is never asked to do it again. He is pleased with himself until he asks his wife to record a football game for him. Then he finds that it can go both ways.