# etiquette advice: drunk person breaks toilet

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etiquette-advice-drunk-person-breaks-toilet/433545>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 15, 2008, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etiquette-advice-drunk-person-breaks-toilet/433545 "2008-01-15T01:09:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![buncombe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@buncombe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buncombe)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etiquette-advice-drunk-person-breaks-toilet/433545/41 "2008-01-17T06:09:03Z")

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[QUOTE=Brown Eyed Girl]  
[Stitch Witchery](http://www.amazon.com/Dritz-Stitch-Witchery-Heavy-Duty/dp/B0001DSIGO/ref=pd_bxgy_k_text_b) .  
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Oh YES. I will go over to her apartment and wear my super sneaky ski pants.

Weirdest thing; the Friend just emailed me and asked me how to cook brussels sprouts. What? What? Sometimes I feel as if I have stepped into the Twilight Zone.

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**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etiquette-advice-drunk-person-breaks-toilet/433545/42 "2008-01-17T10:31:48Z")

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Friend is ‘keeping out of it’ by pretending it never happened.  
It’s up to you if you want to play along - but doing so means that you can never, ever mention the FOAF make-up incident again. That would be ‘dragging up the past’ and ‘all your fault’.

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**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etiquette-advice-drunk-person-breaks-toilet/433545/43 "2008-01-17T14:57:32Z")

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[QUOTE=buncombe]  
Oh YES. I will go over to her apartment and wear my super sneaky ski pants.

Weirdest thing; the Friend just emailed me and asked me how to cook brussels sprouts. What? What? Sometimes I feel as if I have stepped into the Twilight Zone.  
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If she eats them, that’s punishment enough. Yuck.

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**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etiquette-advice-drunk-person-breaks-toilet/433545/44 "2008-01-17T15:15:01Z")

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[QUOTE=maggenpye]  
Friend is ‘keeping out of it’ by pretending it never happened.  
It’s up to you if you want to play along - but doing so means that you can never, ever mention the FOAF make-up incident again. That would be ‘dragging up the past’ and ‘all your fault’.  
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Where “keeping out of it” equals “not taking responsibility at all for bringing someone you didn’t know (or didn’t know well) vomiting drunk over to your house and making you responsible for the mess.”

I think the only thing you can do is to show up at her household with a bunch of preschoolers who have just had cotton candy for lunch, several jars of fingerpaint, and then “stay out of it.”

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