Sometimes you jiggle the handle, sometimes the handle jiggles you.
Nah. Sorry. These were little boys balled up crew socks. Toilets don’t like those things down in the curvy parts. Little boys don’t like Pop-pop hollering at them either. We’ve also dug a pair of Spiderman underoos outta that thing.
My daughter-in-law called me late one night when toilet was blocked and plunger would not clear the issue. My darling granddaughters were 4 or 5 and had “accidentally” dropped a fork and cloth napkin into the bowl and flushed it. Managed to snake it out of the gooseneck without damage. Always inspected silverware carefully when eating there, after that.
Why? After sitting in the toilet bowl for hours, any food residue was likely washed away and the fork was probably pretty clean! 
Ninja’d (I think) by @Dallas_Jones, but still:
Yakov Smirnoff: “In Soviet Russia, handle jiggles you”!
As a side note, Good Gosh you must hate climbing stairs…
Actually, it’s not that bad, gives me some much-needed exercise, and after almost 30 years here I’ve got things set up for maximum efficiency; for example, if I want a mug of tea, I’ve got tea bags and sachets, an electric kettle, and a water source on all three floors; so whether I’m in the living room, the second-floor front-bedroom-turned-office, or the third floor library/reading room, it’s all readily to hand. Televisions with cable hookups in living room, bedroom, and library; ditto for landline cordless phones, plus in the basement.
Even the toilet handle jiggle is really just a soft tap on the handle; if it gives only a little bit, it’s fine; if it feels loose, gotta fix the flapper.