Offensively stupid, yet lucky

[Jim K.]

Do you have any real estate stories of guys who have succeeded (at least to some extent), while doing things you considered just incredibly dumb? Winners in spite of themselves? Because today is my fifth day of dumping BIO-CLEAN down a stack at the Christmas duplex that has been clogged for at least the last three months. Both the kitchen sinks run to it as well as one of the washing machines in the basement. Every time they've run the sinks upstairs, water has spilled from an extra standpipe onto the floor of the basement, but it's run neatly to the nearby floor drain. Three months of this, gallons and gallons and gallons of wastewater, and that drain, believe it or not, has never clogged.

What the hell? If it had been me, I would have bet on that floor drain clogging up with food and sewage residue the FIRST DAY.  How does the village idiot I bought this place from get lucky like that?