Midnight Adventures

As Josh, Aaron and I were civilly discussing politics last night, we heard a strange sound. Water. At first we thought our neighbors were running their dishwasher really late (it was midnight). But soon enough we realized the problem was within our apartment when water started dripping from our ceiling onto our dinning room floor.

We all three ran upstairs and sure enough, our toilet had overflowed so much that our bathroom was full of water. Since we have forced air heat and our heat duct is on the floor, that is where the water went, into that big hole. From there, it went onto my dinning room floor.

Thank goodness we are renting! The University immediately sent over the night maintenance worker.

She determined that we have a really old toilet. Really??? Our entire house is old; anybody could determine that. So basically, the toilet never wants to turn off. It just keeps running! So now, we have to physically turn off the water once the bowl fills in order to prevent this from happening again. Oh, and I get a new toilet today! And the special Mold Patrol will come and inspect everything and clean the ducts. And I will get a new ceiling.

Here are some pictures:

The hole in my ceiling. Look, you can even see a drip!



The bucket and towel catching water.