Someone in our office building was apparently doing this on purpose, stuffing great wads of paper down and flooding the bathrooms. Of course, the first thing anyone wanted to do was hang a sign. 
Oh, that’ll work…
My grandmother did that once, not long before moving into a nursing home. She was cleaning the bathroom in preparation for our visit, flushed the paper towels down the toilet, and had to call a plumber to snake it out right before we arrived. She told us she assumed paper towels were the same as toilet paper, so since it was ok to flush the latter it must be ok to flush the former. Although since as far as I know she hadn’t made that mistake in several decades of having indoor plumbing, I suspect it may have been a case of old age related forgetfulness setting in.
Or, she’d successfully flushed them before - smaller number, different brand? It isn’t like it’s an automatic clog - I myself have flushed single paper towels successfully, and even two or three seem to be less stress on the plumbing then a really large bowel movement.
My Sherlock sense tells me that if the bathroom was recently remodeled, then there were construction crews involved. Is it possible some of those people are the culprits? I’m not meaning to impugn these folks, but some builders are quite fond shoving garbage in walls and other places that it doesn’t go, y’know, for the LOLs!
Google it.
Really?
You are 65 years old, have two million dollar homes and are unable to figure out how to get from Point A in YOURTOWN, to Point B in YOURTOWN. So you call and ask me for directions…for 20 minutes saying “do you mean this, or that, or there, or about there” and then repeating back "turn right at the grey house and left at the green house? when I said the opposite. What kind of car do you have? “A new Tesla”. Just enter the address in the NAV system. “What is a NAV system”
This is now functional incompetence, writ large.
“I’ll just take you there”
“oh no, that would be too much trouble”
$%^&*(
I am 5 years older than you and you will not figure this out for yourself.
So, %^& YOU!
It happened at the computer company I used to work at. It turned out that a temporary employee from India was the culprit. When he confessed (after some good-natured ribbing about the toilets being shut down all the time), he said he used paper towels to cover the toilet seat (fear of AIDS at the time?) and flushed them without thinking. Yes, signs went up saying don’t flush paper towels.
I also wonder if the new construction has some low-flow toilets, where flushing towels is now a problem when it wasn’t previously.
Our bathrooms have brand-new full ass-gasket dispensers, so that shouldn’t be the reason. But you never know.
The urinals are low flow, except for the first week when they weren’t calibrated correctly and didn’t turn off for about a minute and come close to overflowing. I haven’t used a stall yet to see what sort of pressure the toilets have.
Maybe this person should see a doctor.
One of my favorite phrases is “What am I, Google?”
Maybe you need to ask this guy “What am I, Google Maps?”
When there is an accident on the freeway and one lane needs to merge into another you take turns. Yes some jackasses have to be in front of everybody and I understand you don’t want to get in an accident to prove your point. But if that is not the case TAKE YOUR TURN! As one of the cars behind you, don’t let 3 cars in, drive a little further and let 4 cars in, drive a little bit and let 2 cars in.
Yes similar to a rant I have above in this thread but this happened to me this morning.
When there are signs and flashing arrow lights that the lane you are in is closed ahead. It may be a good Idea to get in the other lane.
I’m talking about highway speeds and not much traffic. Instead these clueless people are dumfounded when the road is blocked and they now have to move from a stop into moving traffic.
Pay attention!
You reminded me of another driving behavior that really salts my skivvies: people who don’t know the purpose of entrance ramps.
Hey, Mr. Tortoise, know why the Highway Department built this long ramp we’re on, that leads from the 35 mph surface street down to the interstate? It’s for you to speed up. See, the cars on the highway are going 65, and the ramp is long enough for you to accelerate to merge safely with the traffic. You pootling down the on-ramp at 25 mph, then cautiously creeping into the right lane while you build up speed, is actually more dangerous than accelerating down the on-ramp. Dangerous for you and for me, if I’m unlucky enough to be behind you. Wondering why I got out from behind you as soon as I possibly could, then goosed my engine and zipped past you, muttering “idiot” under my breath? Yeah, that’s why.
Funny screen name and post.
Knew someone would point that out. I swear I don’t do it on purpose, but probably a good third of the replies my posts have ever gotten note the appropriateness or irony of my username to a particular comment.
Meanwhile I was simply reminded of this old Disney driver’s ed film.
Made even better when they’re driving a car with plenty of horsepower. “Ya bought a muscle car, drive it like one!”
The reiteration of how the other freeway driver will let you courteously move in lets you know it’s a Disney production. (IOW I am saying it is Fantasyland. Of course, I get the feeling the Disney of those years would absolutely delight in the freeways system with all it entailed.)
(Though considering what the safety measures were in cars of that age, man that’s some bad carnage ensuing…)
Spin it off the edge of the road, into a tree and land in the ditch?
I used to love that video but on watching it now I see how it ignores Native Americans and wildlife. The settlers didn’t make paths they followed NA footpaths who followed wildlife paths. Because those paths followed water courses/sources.
Here in Iowa there are a couple older on ramps that are so tight they are set at 25 mph. And then you have about a hundred feet to get up to 65 mph (at the minimum because traffic seems to go at least 10 mph higher than what is legal). But then you get another 60’ where folks on the Interstate are also getting off it.
I avoid those ramps unless I am in one of our newer vehicles. Back when I was driving our full sized vans there was no way I could accelerate fast enough.
(all lengths are approximate because I suck at estimating)
I used to work in a business park off a state highway outside of town. As you came out of the business park, you were at the top of a hill with about a quarter mile long acceleration lane to your right. Piece of cake to get up to speed and merge over, right? Nope. Invariably I would get stuck behind some idiot waiting for both lanes of oncoming traffic to be perfectly clear, then would pull out all the way over into the left lane. And it’s not like they needed to make a left turn anytime soon… they would drive all the way into town in the left lane.
Well, yeah; they’re presumably thinking about how things will play out for other would-be mergers in the right lane, and they presumably want to steer clear of such.