I have shared a house now with a female roommate for almost a year now and I just started noticing some weird behavior. In the last few days she has started flushing the toilet almost every time that she walks by the bathroom door. I use this bathroom very sparingly, as it is “her” bathroom, and I never do the no. 2, so I don’t think that the problem is me. I’ve asked her about this, and she claims that she doesn’t do it. Is there a problem, or has she officially lost her marbles?
Well, it’s more than just curiousity. The city that I live in is in a water shortage and they are in the process of raising rates. I am on a strict budget, so this could become a financial problem. Thanks though for the responses.
If they were in the toilet, I think it’s safe to say they’re gone.
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I think can have fun with this, if she is in fact flushing the toilet randomly for no reason. Sneak in and sprinkle glitter in the toilet. Start leaving little notes in floating in the bowl. Die the water in the toilet tank, so when it refills it’s bright purple. When questioned, completely deny everything.
I’m sorry, I should have mentioned that we have two bathrooms. I #2 regularly, just not in her bathroom. I never said that I count how many times he day she did this. But she has to walk by her bathroom to get to where I watch tv, so it’s actually hard not to notice. For all I know, she has been doing this since last September. Maybe I just started noticing now.
If you live in a 2 bedroom apartment with 2 toilets, you probably have low water use toilets. So don’t worry too much.
This may be a dumb question, but are you certain she is not using the toilet? (‘Gus’ being a guy-type name, I should point out that women have MUCH smaller bladders; the internal sex organs take up a lot of space.)
And remember that anythng that happens in a bathroom or bedroom is no-one else’s business.
And, yes, she does sound like she has a compulsive berhavior disorder.
well, if you’re EE inclined, you could have some fun…
Build a cascade multiplier powered by a 9 volt battery (I can’t remember if it’s 2x or 3x per stage) build enough stages to crank that 9 volt up to 90Kv… the amperage will be so low that it’ll just hurt like hell, but it won’t cause any real damage (think shuffling your sneakers on the shag carpet)… you ground one side, and tape the other lead to the flush handle (make sure that no metal connects the flush handel and the water in the tank)…
hook up the battery and just wait for, “OWWWW! What the hell was that?!?”… go investigate, when you notice that toilet isn’t working right (the 9 volt battery should be completely dead after that shot), ask why she was flushing the toilet when it was just water…
after some “um, I dunno” type statements, offer to fix the toilet (that is one of man’s jobs, right?!?)… the problem will probably stop if not… wash, rinse, repeat.
I second that it is probably a situation where one flush doesn’t get it all down. This happens at my mother’s house, and it is really annoying. You either just leave it there floating around, freaking your guests out, or else you have to wait until the toilet “recharges” and come back to flush it. It’s not unusual for me to have to slip into the bathroom at random times to flush the remains of an earlier session.
At least you don’t live at my house, where one has to pretty much continually flush in order to prevent backups. I sometimes have to flush five or six times. Thank goodness we don’t get the bill. (and if the landlord really wanted the bill to be smaller, she’d do something about the sixty year old plumbing).