90s low-flow toilets, I hate you...

[Genny Li]

So the government mandated lower flow toilets in 1994.  It took until about 2005 before manufacturers figured out how to do this without making toilets that clog all the time. I have lived in a townhouse built in 1998 myself, and it was the first time in my life that I clogged a toilet just by using it.  I didn't even just clog it once but multiple times in the 4 months I lived there.

Aaaaand my new condo was built in...1998. Sure enough, all the toilets are original. Sure enough, in the two weeks I was there doing a deep reset, I clogged a toilet and had to plunge it.  And sure enough, because I'm renting to college students and they are still babies, one clogged a different toilet today and has been texting me.  He thought that this was something a handyman needed to fix.  Um...no.  You need to plunge it, I said.

There are 3 plungers already (left by previous tenants) that I distributed among the 4 bathrooms, but of course, his is the one without a plunger.  Since he didn't have a plunger in his bathroom, he had to text me again to inform me of this. I told him to borrow one of the other THREE from one of the other guys or buy one, and that they were left behind as a courtesy.

Babes in the woods.

But that did confirm my decision to replace the toilets when I refresh the bathroom, because his response when the toilet clogged was to flush it twice more until it "nearly overflowed" and he said that he's scared to do it again in case it does overflow.  My mommy senses are tingling and I'm very much afraid that he actually DID overflow it a little and just doesn't want to admit it.

Gah.

There will be a follow-up with a question about the new hotness dual flush toilets...lol.