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JULY 2, 2009 10:48AM

Thoughts On Cleaning My Toilet

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            Man, I hate cleaning my toilet.

            I need a maid.

            Dude, I can't afford a maid. (Why do I call myself “dude?” Shouldn’t I call myself, “Myself?”)

            Maybe if I sold a kidney, I could afford a maid.

            Hey, if I sold both kidneys, I wouldn't need a toilet.

            Oh right: poop. Well played, human digestive biology, well played.

            You know what? The government should provide everyone with a maid. Someone to clean their toilet. They should institute a national maid-corps program, the members of which— and everyone would be a member—would clean other people's toilets. Specifically, my toilet.

            Oh. Wait. Then they'd make me clean someone else's toilet. We'd all just be cleaning each other's toilets. And what if I got some big fat guy who takes, like, explosive dumps that go all over the place? Man, that would suck. For me and for the fat guy, because I'd totally blow off cleaning his toilet.

            Hmmm. I believe I might have found the problem with socialism: having to clean some fat dude’s explosive dumps.

            Why is this toilet-cleanser blue? Does blue toilet-cleanser work better? Is there something in the blue that makes little shit-crumbs shit themselves and run away? I suppose I'd be scared of a blue cleanser if I were a shit-crumb. Or maybe if I were a shit crumb, I'd have other problems, bigger problems, that would swamp the blue-cleanser issue.

            Nah. Shit-crumbs are happy-go-lucky. Like Shriners. But without the motorized tricycles. When I flush, they'll scream, "Wheeeee!" and slide down the drain like kids at a water-park. Of course, only other shit-crumbs are able to hear them. They're not great communicators, shit-crumbs.

            I wonder if a really small person could flush himself down the toilet? Like Verne Troyer, maybe. It'd have to be a powerful toilet, like, you'd need an outboard motor. If I were Verne Troyer, I'd never put an outboard motor on my toilet.

            Flush! Wheeeeee! Oh, okay, fine, I made that sound, not the shit-crumbs. I know that; I'm not crazy. I don't care what the fucking voices in my head say. Well, I'd care if they said, "Kill! Kill! Kill!" but they don't; mostly they just tell me to be extremely rude.

            If there are really alligators in the sewer, and they're really white from lack of sunlight, did I just dye one blue? Because if so, and anyone, like a sewer worker, saw that alligator, that guy who saw him would probably laugh his ass off. And while he was laughing the alligator would sneak up and bite him in two. You’re welcome, newly-blue sewer alligator.

            Now my toilet smells like pine. I guess that's nice. If someone came in here right now, would they think I ate a Christmas tree yesterday?

             Time to clean the mold out of the fridge. I hope the spores are hallucinogenic.

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We are lucky to have three toilets so we just rotate. That way we just clean the three toilets once a year. If it gets too "ripe" I use the construction Porta Potty down the street. I like your humor and your style.
Cool. People should pay you for this sorta thing. "Like Shriners!" Beautiful.
You have entirely too much free time. You can come clean my toilet anytime. I've done my share of toilet musings while cleaning up after three sons - be grateful you have daughters.
Who knew toilet cleaning (or thinking about toilet cleaning) could be so entertaining? Funny stuff!
omygod you're funny!
No one could make cleaning the toilet so appealing or the thought of mold so enticing!
I had a tidy (bowl) t-shirt once. Or was that tie-dye?
I'm sorry I read this post.
Just kidding. ;)

Have a good weekend! I don't read OS on the weekends. Gotta give my eyes a break.
It took me several months to forget the alligators in the sewers.
It is cyclical for me.

Thank you for reminding me to look in the bowl.

(thumbified for the blue stuff)
I think it's blue so it kills the color of whatever else is likely to be in there, plus it's kind of like those tablets the dental hygienist give you, highlighting what you've missed.

For a funny story regarding blue toilet chemicals, check out this tale from Patrick Smith, of Salon's "Ask the Pilot". http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/col/smith/2002/10/03/askthepilot13/print.html
I was going to introduce you to Sheldon the Wonderhorse, but I see you've already met. Hilarious!
You have elevated your art to new places. Now I must go and clean... my aim ain't straight.
And for the hell of it, I'll answer these in reverse order.

Mr. Mustard, what can I say? Writing finds its own level.

And your aim may not be true, but your heart is pure, which gives you the strength of ten men, or three men and a bear.

Steve, I have indeed met Sheldon, and he's awesome. I'm intrigued that he and I were both writing on a similar theme today.

GeeBee: that's a good a theory as any I could come up with. And yeah, that Patrick Smith story is awesome.

Have you heard about chunks of "blue ice" falling off planes? Spider Robinson did a whole bit story about one hitting someone on the ground, whom he then asserted was the only person on earth ever to be killed by an icy BM. (Um, that was funnier during the Cold War, when ICBMs were more in the news.)

Jodi, I am nothing if not public-service-minded.

Aw, Gwendolyn, just wait until my next piece, on things I've found in the dumpster out back of my house.

O'Really, I hope you didn't tie-dye it in the bowl. That would be unsanitary.

Mary, sweetfeet, Lisa and Dave: thank you guys. I'm just writing what I know. And Dave, on the people paying me idea: I take Visa and Mastercard.

Nora: You have no idea--none, zero, zip--how filthy two girls can be. Trust me, there's a reason their bathroom is not the guest bathroom.

Roger, your house must be the most popular in the neighborhood around July.
rated for blue aligators!
I'm laughing with glee and gusto here. I just cleaned me toilet, but only you have the chops to treat the subject right.
Actually, a car was destroyed by a chunk of "blue ice" somewhere on Earth in the last week. I saw a news item about it, but I can't recall where. Fortunately it was a parked car with no-one inside at the time, but it was majorly scrunched.
Very funny and true. We know someone who installed an air-assist toilet to help with recurring... err... problems in their house. Now every time someone flushes it sounds like a plane is landing.

On a side note - re your comment to Steve Blevins... I do remember Rod McKuen... just imagine what he might do with your topic here!
bahHMMblog: the blue gators and I both appreciate it.

LuluandPhoebe, the first thing I'd have done, had I been you in that situation, is to burn all the kitchen sponges. Because, and I cannot emphasize this enough, ewwwwwwww.

Thanks, Zuma and j lynne.

GeeBee, I shudder to think of trying to explain that to my insurance company.

annette2009: I just don't think I'd want to have that kind of power ready to be unleashed that close to my tender bits. The potential for disaster is...unthinkable.

I think Rod McKuen writing about crap would probably be the perfect marriage of form and content.

Cindy, I really liked your Circling the Drain piece. I didn't find it depressing at all, just honest and well-written.

Yeah, yeah, I'm coming around to the idea that I should put the ads up. Soon...
I know where you can get a good plunger
Great piece but, the ads might have elevated it to a whole new level. It's something to consider, especially if humor is a priority.
Found your PM about "cleaning out the toilet" while cleaning out my inbox (no correlation implied) and dropped everything to come over and check it out. I have a weakness for bathroom humor, and you have certainly mastered the genre! Tidee Bowl blue alligators may be the most disturbingly vivid image every conjured up in the...ahem...annals of blogging. Unless you're pathologically shy, you really should be doing stand-up somewhere.