Things you've dropped into the toilet

[Dragwyr]

What inspired this thread:
As you may know from previous threads, I am a magician. I'm also a computer technician in my regular job. So I'm taking a break and sitting on the toilet responding to nature's calling, and as I'm doing this (Since I don't have anything better to do) I'm practicing some magic. Actually I'm making up some gimmicked business cards for a trick I'm working on. Without giving the secret away, I will say that I was using a hole puncher to gimmick the business cards (Anyone know Michael Close's "Pot Hole Trick?").

As I am doing this, I drop my hole puncher INTO THE TOILET!!
I couldn't believe it... and I had poop in there and everything. I did manage to get it out and clean it off, but it made me wonder...

The question:
What have you accidentilly dropped into the toilet and what were the circumstances surrounding said drop?

[Dragwyr]

Also were you able to recover it? If so, how? Did you ever use it again? For me I used a pen to grab the hole puncher out.

[wring]

Ahhh, toilets.

first: My (ex) husband, using the cell phone at work, naturally dropped it in. I laughed too hard to find out what he did with it.

I have a son. naturally things have gotten dropped in:

When he was in the 'biting' phase that all kids go through, I'd pick him up like a football, take him into the bathroom and have him bite into a bar of soap (we had a bunch of those little hostess soaps). he'd sputter and wander off. One day he'd biten his cousin Kris like 3 times right in a row ("mom, Ben bit me", I take Ben, have him bite in the bar of soap, sputter sputter, Ben runs off, "mom, Ben bit me again" repeat as needed). I found him a few moments later, he'd taken every bar of soap he could find and thrown it in the toilet. Those I was able to rescue (the toilet had been empty).

The other method of disciplin I used on young Ben was 'time outs' and I'd set the timer for the amount of time. One day I couldn't find the timer. A few days later, we started having problems with (you guessed it) the toilet. This time he'd flushed it. The plumber found it. we didn't want it anymore.

[mouthbreather]

[Henry Kissinger]

My Glasses.

[/Henry Kissinger]

[Jet Jaguar]

Well, not quite in, but close. At work, we wear photo ID badges. One time, I knocked my badge off somehow, but luckily it bounced off the rim and landed on the floor. I now always take off my badge and put it in my pocket when I'm in the restroom.

[Fretful Porpentine]

A copy of The Song of Roland, during my second year of college.

I fished it right out, and in fact still have it. There wasn't actually anything in the toilet, and college bookstores being the evil price-gouging monopolies they are, I was damned if I was buying another one.

[Nimue]

My contact lense case (open and separated at the time) and my hairbrush. Both recovered, both used again after thoroughly cleaned.

It's just inevitable. When you drop something near a toilet which has its lid up, the dropped object will find a way to bounce directly into the toilet. I have actually gotten into the habit of closing the toilet lid when I'm handling small things (e.g. makeup) near it, because if something slips out of my hands there is no doubt that it will land in the toilet. Unless toilet is clean but the trash can is full and particularly disgusting -- then it will land in there and make its way all the way to the bottom.

[gorkamorka]

Turds.

[Biggirl]

My daughter, when she was about 2. Actually she dropped herself in. When her father and I rushed into the bathroom in answer to her screams, we found just her feet and head sticking out over the rim.

She was scared of the toilet for months after and mad at her parents for laughing.

[xizor]

A golf ball. Into a urinal at a putt-putt golf place. It actually dropped from my hand at the sink, bounced twice on the floor before landing in the urinal. I did not retrieve it.

[Soda]

I didn't actually drop anything, but when my then-boyfriend and I were living in France, we had the smallest possible bathroom. Not only was the bathroom small, but the toilet itself had a life of its own. The tank was for reasons unknown to man hooked up to warm water and our warm water tank was tiny. And it was expensive to heat the water too, so naturally we saved the water as long as possible, ie, we didn't flush until necessary. We had a little chlorine thingy so it wasn't gross.
Anyway, getting back on track here... One day, my guy comes out the bathroom, looking incredibly embarrased and blushing like a tomato. He had managed to knock over my make-up bag, and my favorite eye-shadow and some other really neat stuff had fallen into the toilet. He took me shopping. I went straight to the Clinique counter...

[Lsura]

Er, maybe the question should be what haven't I dropped into the toilet. Things just have a tendency of falling in. To name a few

the company pager
the company cell phone
the keys to the company car, with the remote attached(I did like that job, by the way)
numerous pens and pencils
barrettes
the "visitor" badge I had to wear when visiting a company office out of town

most of the items were retrieved and used again. Pens and pencils, however, are immediately retired, since I have a habit of chewing on them to no end. The idea of chewing on one after it's been in the toilet? Ewwwwwww.

[Guinastasia]

My stuffed Shamu I got from SeaWorld when I was little. My mom dubbed it, "Shamu going for a swim."

My blankey, "Crummy". (I don't remember this, my mom told me about it.)

Both times they were rescued and washed.

[Freudian Slit]

Originally posted by Guinastasia
My stuffed Shamu I got from SeaWorld when I was little. My mom dubbed it, "Shamu going for a swim."

My blankey, "Crummy". (I don't remember this, my mom told me about it.)

Both times they were rescued and washed.



You mean they had toilets back then...when you were a child?

:d & r as fast as I can...: But that was worth it. :p


Biggirl...lol! How'd you get your daughter to use it again? :)

[pepperlandgirl]

Well a few weeks ago, I dropped my sunglasses into the (used) toilet. Without thinking I shoved my hand into the toilet, and ran, cursing, to the sink. I was at school, but fortunately, it was during class, so I was the only one there.
So, I had two choices, keep them or throw them away. They are the best sunglasses I have ever had. So really, what choice did I have? After a VERY VERY good cleaning, I kept them.

[Guinastasia]

Zoggie-considering I'm only 22, I'm not insulted! LMAO

[Ann Onimous]

I've never dropped anything in the toilet. I work for a pager company, however, and when a woman calls in and the first thing she says is, "You'll never guess what I did!" it is certain she has dropped her pager in the toilet. I just usually chuckle and ask where I can send a replacement.

My kids, however... stuffed animals (particularly this one 60's cow I got from Chik Fil'A), glasses, anything they can drop in. You have to be really careful when they bring you a glass of water.

:D

[They Call Me Sneeze]

the two i can remember:

the last roll of toilet paper, and


a little container that held about 20 bathbeads shaped like different animals.

[lolagranola]

I've dropped tons of things into the toilet that don't belong in there. I've finally smartened up, and my toilet lid is always down now. Woe to the person that leaves it up. Everything gets disinfected and re-used, unless it's something rather porous, and then it gets retrieved just to get thrown in the garbage. I always retrieve because I don't want to pay for a plumber to fix the toilet if something gets firmly lodged in there.

One of the worst ones was when a neighbor kid dropped a washcloth into the toilet after she peed in it. She left quickly, and I was left to dunk my hand into someone elses pee to get the washcloth out. Gross. I shudder just to think of it. Once, my son dropped my brand new contact lenses into the toilet, and then flushed. I was not impressed, especially since I have terrible astigmitism and my contacts are rather expensive.

[Biggirl]

Originally posted by Zoggie
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Guinastasia
[B]

Biggirl...lol! How'd you get your daughter to use it again? :)

We had to hold her by the arms. Protection from the toilet monster.

[rocking chair]

toilet monster... love it.

well, it wasn't exactly a toilet, it was an outhouse thing in a state park. my glasses fell in while i was changing from bathing suit to play clothes. no, they weren't retrieved. we were told that the park had a list of items to look for at the end of the season when they "wintered" the outhouses. nooooo, way would i want anything back from an outhouse.

[brad_d]

My 2-AA Mini-Maglite. I was at a local national park, and had to answer a call of nature around midnight. Took my flashlight into the outhouse, and held it between my chin and shoulder while stood there doing my business. Somehow, while I was zipping back up, it slipped out and fell right down the hole.

I didn't even consider trying to retrieve it.

Girlfriend: Didn't you have a flashlight when you headed over there?
Me: Umm...yeah...<mumble>....

[Mysphyt]

*newbie alert*


Shamu reminded me . . .
Not a toilet, but once when I was about four I dropped my hat into the Sea Lions exhibit at Sea World. I know I got it back, but don't know where it is now. It's been a while.

[Dragwyr]

These are great!

Biggirl, I can't top you finding your kid in the toilet. That is just hilarious.

I just remembered another one. I was staying with my then-fiancé (Now wife) at her apartment. I had this ring my parents gave me for making Eagle Scout. I had just finished doing my business, got up and flushed the toilet like I always did before I showered. As the toilet was flushing, I pulled my ring off, but it sort of popped off of my finger and headed straight for the flushing toilet. My jaw dropped as I watched it swirl down with everything else. I was in a bad mood for the rest of the day.

[Morrison's Lament]

I dropped my stash in the toilet a few times during my junkie period, always pissed me off big time.

Only once have I seen someone desperate enough to retrieve something from a toilet in a dirty Rave club with his nose and fingers. Although it was not from the water but the top part of the inside of the bowl (if that's easy to picture...) And yes, it was a powdered substance.

The tweleve steps may be boring, but they beat sticking your head in a toilet bowl ;)

--- G. Hrafn

[Cyndar]

One of my cats pushed my Gameboy into the toilet. I keep the lid down now.

[Eusabian]

So I was reading Stephen King's Night Shift. It was a paperback and gotten from my dad's room. I noticed it's a little water logged, but hey! it's a good book.

One day we leave a restaurant where I had been jawing a particularly tough piece of meat. Now a scrap is stuck in between my teeth. Working it with my tongue, fingers, whatever while I read the really creepy story about the huge albino rat and Dad drives us home. So I finally can't take it anymore and I use the back cover of the book as dental floss to work out this huge piece of cow flesh. Dad sees this and just starts howling... He is laughing really hard. Of course, I say, "What?" He says, "The reason that book is waterlogged like that is I dropped it in the toilet!" Oh, great. Now the litttle brother in the back seat is rolling on the floor. So I'm gonna tough it out. "That's ok... Little water never hurt anyone." He laughs even louder. "I was peeing at the time!" Yuck... So how many of you have pulled something from the toilet and then put it in your mouth?

But still... as gross as chewing on that book cover was, I had to wonder... What in the hell was he doing reading a Stephen King book while he's peeing!? I hope it's not a genetic trait.

[The Red Menace]

One time when I was five, one of my sisters either dropped or placed one of our cats in the toilet. I heard a commotion in the bathroom, which was right next to my room, and then I heard my mom and sisters talking and laughing about what had happened. Somehow I came to understand that they'd flushed the cat down the toilet, which understandably upset me quite a bit. It took them a second or two to figure out why I was so upset, but once they did the produced a wet and very pissed-off cat to assuage my fears that she'd been flushed.

[Guinastasia]

I was talking to Mom when she got home. Actually, they had to replace Shamu with a new one!
lol

[PlanMan]

After reading all this, is it any wonder I have a phobia about something falling out my pocket into the toilet?

[Reemul]

A few years back, at a Mountain Man Pre-1840s style Rendezvous campout, my little brother woke up bright and early, and wanted to go to our van (parked about a mile away) to get something or other, and got the keys from my father. The rest of us in the tent went back to sleep. We were rousted a while later by my brother's panicked mumblings about "dropping the keys". So, my father dutifully got up and was treated to "let's retrieve the keys from the bottom of the porta-potty". Almost all our tools were, of course... in the van. This was, mind you, the next to last day of the rendezvous, which had gone on now for nearly 8 days. Those porta-pottys were RIPE. The honey-wagon hadn't been by for days. Eventually, someone found and came up with the idea of using a clotheshanger, un-bended and hooked at the end enough to retrieve the keys, to scoop them out of the froth. They were found, thankfully, and boiled for HOURS, literally. We used up a lot of wood in the fire that day.

[sulawesi]

Well, the other day at school I was in a really baaaad mood, and I dropped a whole bunch of combination locks into a toilet. I regretted it afterwards, though, I swear!

[activgurl]

I did manage to drop my keys in the bowl once. Clean, thank god. What I would like to figure out, now, is how often folks accidently drop pills? I worked at a pharmacy, and more than once our "regulars" would come by with "I dropped in the can", or "somebody took 'em out of my car", or "I don't think you gave me all of 'em last time". How come it was always your NARCOTICS, folks? You usually straddle the toilet when you uncap your strong stuff?

[sk8rixtx]

A spoon.

A freind bet me ten dollars to use it.(Toilet was clean, mind you)

End result: I am seven dollars richer. (Bought Pepto Bismol)

[OpalCat]

I dropped my Keeper in the toilet last month. Fortunately the only thing in the toilet was blood from the Keeper, so I just reached in and grabbed it out. After much washing with painfully hot water and disinfectant soap, I put it back in. I lived. (so far!)

[AerialCartwheels]

WOW! This is a HOOT! (Especially the one about the kitty being flushed!)

Well, my story is more of a purpose/accident I suppose.

About two weeks ago, my suitemates (college dorm) decieded that they were going to clean out the fridge. There was a jar of pickles in there that they didn't like. They decieded that they wanted to recycle the jar, but what were they going to do with the pickles? Well, suitemate #1 thinks it would be a good idea if they flushed the pickles, because after all, they flush everything else. Suitemate #2 agrees. So, suitemate #1 proceedes to flush WHOLE pickles down the toilet FOUR (4) at a time!! (She said at first she was going to flush the whole jar at once, but she figured the potty would plug up.)

Well anyway, the potty DID plug up and we had to get our resident advisor. First she had suitemate #1 fish out any pickles that weren't flushed and then she attempted to plunge the toilet. No luck. So they got the maitenance (sp?) and they thought that they might have to snake the pipes, but then they thought they would have to take the entire system apart. We had to use a neigbor's toilet for the night and the next day.

Well, it turns out that all the toilet needed was a lot of good flushings. It works now (thank God!), and we still rip on her about it.

Our bathroom REEKED like pickles for a few days after. *gag* Our resident director was PISSED when he found out what happened, and usually he is a pretty easygoing guy!! Oh well. :) It was still really funny!


Any one want a pickle???? They're fresh! ;)

[Biggirl]

OpalCat what the hell is a Keeper? And why is so much blood involved? I'm picturing some kind of Medieval torture device, all spiky and metallic.

[OpalCat]

http://www.eco-logique.com/p-keeper.htm

I love mine!

[Space Vampire]

I've never dropped anything in the toilet, but I did once fish a dollar in quarters out of a public toilet. The water was clean, but in retrospect I can't believe I did that.

[Dragwyr]

AerialCartwheels:
I can see why you might try flushing pickles down the toilet. They are about the same size as most fecal matter (Not that I make it a point to look), and you were probably just curious.

activgurl:
Were the prescription pills in any sort of hard to open container? I've had pills given to me in a small, extremely challenging to open container, and when I finally get the darn thing open, pills litterally fly everywhere. I've always wondered why "child-proof" also means "Engineering student required".

[AerialCartwheels]

Dragwyr- Nope, I don't think we were curious about the pickles. We *KNEW* it would work. Pickles=fecal matter. But then fecal matter mushes up when it flushes. Pickles probably don't. (Not that I'm saying I know anything about plumbing, but I think that's what happens.) There just wasn't much thought process going on.

We're just a bunch of silly college girls. :)