Wrong on plunger etiquitte. PE states:
1) Your domocile = your responsibility. Blaming it on the last guy will not absolve you of your poor planning.
2) Butthole larger than 3 inches diameter = courtesy flush. Its not just for stink, you know. Especially if you have no plunger.

I had a similar situation the last two times I moved! Then, in my haste to get out of the Walmart plunger-only purchase I got a poor quality one that never does the job. I need to get a fancy plunger some day, because I'm always running into trouble in there...

I feel your pain, and you bring up an important discussion point about the responsibilities of the toilet steward. I'm not sure if I agree with DungDaddy on his #1, and I'm confused by his suggestion for #2... additional flushes on a plugged hole would ultimately send your endeavor on a joy ride down the streets of San Francisco.

I only have one suggestion; move closer to a 24-hour Walgreens. You'll more than make up for the cost of the move in 2-fer-1's.

10-4 Dung Daddy.

I don't understand how anyone could actually block a toilet when they KNOW the dump they're leaving behind is beyond capacity.

It's simple physics: When the volume of A is greater than the volume of B, you must either decrease the volume of A (don't poop so much), or increase the volume of B (flush and start over).

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What do you mean you didn't see it? It was right next to the toilet!

Dood, the Queen has it right. #2 means if you're going to pump 15 pounds of waste into the toilet, flush after every three pounds. That way the loo doesn't have to swallow so much all at once.

#1 means, just take care of business. If you drive your car until it runs out of gas, do you blame the previous owner for not putting more gas in it? No. It's your apt now, so you are responsible for what you need in the apartment. I hope I haven't forgotten this by the time I'm 50.

I don't understand how you know the volume of your outcome beforehand. And even if you had good evidence that it was to be a metric assload, how do you exercise the willpower not to view the result in it's entirety? Don't you take satisfaction in measuring the surface-breach of a fresh steaming heap? Furthermore, by flushing as you go, aren't you admitting defeat to the terrorist commode manufacturors who insist on 2-inch openings and low-flow tanks?

I squat corrected on #1, DD is absolutely correct and I appreciated the empty gas anal-ogy. I'll try harder to be a more responsible citizen.

I have yet to clog a toilet. I'll proudly call my mom when I do though.

Oh come on dooder - how old are you?

Let's just assume you're in your 30's...that means you've been master & commander of your own waste treatment plant for 30 years...and you claim to NOT know its average volume?!?

And as far as standing proudly over your finished beast in all its glory...I think I'd rather not have to buy a new plunger or clean the bathroom floor due to curiosity.

Then again, I've never produced an unflushable grogan. Maybe overdone it with asswipe, but never superturds.

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What do you mean you didn't see it? It was right next to the toilet!

"There is no fate but what we make for ourselves."
-- John Connor

It's not the other guy's responibility to make sure that you have the tools to clear your toilet. If you're going to crap like a hog in your own turder, you've got to be able to deal with the consequences. And if you can't deal with the consequences, you can always use the turders at the coffehouse, drugstore, bookstore or fast food restaurant.
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Deja Poo - Because this shit's so strange, it couldn't ever have happened before.

Yes Mary, I'm am a full-on adult with many years experience as a shit conduit. Yet I am still often surprised (and often delighted) by the volume of my output. Perhaps my rectal passage has become calloused and scaled-over from many years of erosion, dis-allowing me to properly gauge output. But does that make me a sinner or a freak?

We are all different, Mary, and we need not be polarized by our digestive differences. I celebrate your predictable rabbit turds, and I only hope that one day you can visualize a world where my unknown dump volumes will be accepted.

I have a dream... that one day we'll be free to choose hi-capacity toilets once again.

I do see your point, Dood. If you must view your entire creation then it would be sad to flush when part-way done. But if it's going to be a really big one you should be able to judge this when you are only half done. Deciding to pre-flush is another matter.

Oh contraire, dooder! It makes you predictably unpredictable.

And, judging by your last story (which made me laugh my ass off), you seem like the type who regularly needs, shall we say, "ass"istance with evacuating your evacuations.

I do thoroughly accept your digestive uniqueness! But, alas, I'm not in charge of designing the world's crappers. And as I don't see myself taking over that throne of prestige any time soon, I guess I'll just sit back and wait for more "dooder's clogged the toilet again" stories (or, perhaps, the advent of the pocket plunger).

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What do you mean you didn't see it? It was right next to the toilet!

I hope to Buddha I'm not binge-drinking like some dumb fratboy when I'm 50 years old. That's really, really sad. (And if that sounds judgmental, that's because it is.)

Hey SmoovMF, what do you do for an encore?

Ok, now that I got that ebonics joke related play on words out of the way, funny story.... I usually like to buy at least *something* else when I buy something obvious/emabrassing, butt sometimes it's unavoidable.... especially in the pricey SF Bay area.
Welcome! To PR AND to the region some describe as California's "ceral"-- All Fruits, Nuts and Flakes! (Personally, I'm a "Nut")
I've never needed a plunger for myself and have never owned one (quick thanks tossed upwards) but because of your story today, I noticed there was one at my work!!!! I've worked there for over a year, average of less than 10 people to one bathroom and I never noticed there was a plunger! I noticed the brush, but, I guess using the facilities in a hurry and nver seeing one prominently used or displayed growing up or as an adult, it just didn't occur to me.
Sorry. Tangent. So, seriously, encore! :)

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'Hey that sounds pretty nasty, how about a courtesy flush over there?' (AP1)

Even if one SHOULD arrive at one's new home with their OWN plunger, I rather do agree that I would probably bring a NEW plunger.

Smoov is right; when I move, the plunger is staying exactly where it is. I'll buy a new one on the way.

"...like a spring fucking chicken..." I have never seen a chicken have sexual relations with a spring.

After reading some of the comments, I wonder how many of us actually read the submissions to PR and how many peruse them.

While I don't agree that a plunger necessarily has to stay with the toilet, the concept that someone takes a shitty plunger, puts it in a box, packs it up, and takes it with their other belongings is kind of, well, debatable.

Just make sure you get a good plunger, not one of those that when plunged, refuses to retain its shape and requires that you either touch it to unfold it or have to try to catch the lip on the toilet seat to flip out right side out again without touching it, thus flinging shit water all over your bathroom when you are successful.

I hate that.

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.....hugging bunnies since 1969
www.daphneszoo.com

Lol... I'm an anonymous coward by default... people have you ever heard the phrase "Taking the plunge"? Think about it.

I don't want some stranger's shit-coated plunger in my house. When I moved to this place a year ago, my trusty plunger moved with me. I simply placed the business end in a plastic Walmart bag and tossed it in the back of the Jeep. It now lies in wait under the bathroom sink, still unused and wrapped in the Walmart bag.

You could soak it in a bleach solution. That would render the previous owner's Chocolaty-Frosted Grogan Flakes powerless, thus preventing them from contaminating yours.
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.....hugging bunnies since 1969
www.daphneszoo.com

Chocolaty-Frosted Grogan Flakes?

Eurgh.

Suddenly, I do not want breakfast.

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And it burns, burns, burns -
The ring of fire.

I think its polite curtesy to leave behind a plunger after moving, consider it a nice house warming gift. Those big subs always make their way down after a long day of straining from lifting heavy boxes and furniture. I do ofcourse have my decorative plunger (the chrome one with the decorative dolphin ornament ontop)that always reminds me of how those smooth slender animals make their way through the ocean currents with such ease.. I will never give you up

DECORATIVE plunger? Uhm, okay ...

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And it burns, burns, burns -
The ring of fire.

Partial flushes are not possible for everyone though. What about those of us who's poo exits their bodies in less than five seconds, but turns out to be a huge toilet clogging log?

As stated in some of my stories, I have such poos, and can clog a toilet at the drop of a hat. My advice, A: make a poo chopper as I did (when I had a cheapo depot toilet), or B: Invest in either a high velocity flush toilet, or even a macerating toilet.

Last year I installed a HV flush jobbie, and a year later, I have yet to use a plunger or poo chopper. Trust me, a better toilet is worth its weight in brown.

That reminds me. I need to buy a rudimentry plunger.

For those of us who rent our humble abodes in geographical areas of 'water conservation', upgrading to a high flush apparatus is but a pipe dream...

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"Piece out!"

I guess I'm guilty of bad plunger etiquette. When I moved out of my last two houses I took the plunger with me. But it's such a cool plunger with this clear handle and neon blue cup. I just couldn't leave it no matter how much the toilet would miss it!

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Born right the first time.

It just occurred to me that if we happen to move from this house, I'm going to take the plungers and leave new ones as a house-warming present.

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.....hugging bunnies since 1969
www.daphneszoo.com

I did buy a plunger and used it once. It was a cheap one and generated some "splash back".