The toilet in our office occasionally keeps running perpetually. I think it’s because the rubbers don’t quite perfectly seal all the time but I’m not entirely sure.
It’s been busier than usual at work, with us helping out our sister papers in Barriere and Ashcroft a little bit. When I did get ready to leave the office one day, it was just before my son’s bedtime. The only other person still in the office was Beth Audet. My wife phoned me to ask me if I was on my way yet.
It was right around my son’s bedtime and he was getting a little fussy as usual. He’s a bit of an adrenaline junky and likes pretty much all things scary, as well as being chased around.
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I talked to him on the phone a little which cheered him up. I told him “daddy’s coming to get you?” I’m not quite sure what his reaction was like exactly but confusion was definitely part of it by the sound of it.
Beth said she was really happy to be around to hear my “daddy voice.”
In truth, I might have made it home before he went to sleep, if not for the perpetually running toilet.
I was sitting behind my desk and suddenly started hearing this splashing, like when your sink runs over. I wasn’t sure what had happened right that second, but I was sure I would find a flooded bathroom floor. Sure enough, I soon stood in a puddle.
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We had left the porcelain top off the tank, so we could hold it down manually for when flushing was required. There’s a little hose going into the tank out of which the water pours to refill it. Whether bumped by someone on accident or from the water pressure coming out of the hose, it had worked itself loose with one end sticking out of the tank, spraying water everywhere. I quickly reassembled it and put the porcelain top back on to prevent it from coming out again (my colleagues promptly took it back off the next morning). After some time mopping up, it was impossible to tell it had flooded at all.
Unfortunately, it’s far from the first time I’ve dealt with a toilet spilling water and, I’m sure, it won’t be the last time either.
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