Life hack: Don’t put plastic straws down your sink disposal. Don’t put Starbucks drink topper... spill stick... things... down your sink disposal.
I thought this was common sense, but, apparently, it is not.
I don’t want to point fingers, but also I’m totally pointing fingers at the only other apartment that shares this kitchen wall. I’ve lived here for a year. The lady who lived here for 5 years before me now lives downstairs and helps out with maintenance stuff in the building. I highly, highly doubt she would have been dumb enough to do this shit.
It wasn’t just one straw, this was not a case of, “oops, it went down the drain, I don’t want to put my hand in to get it, let’s just run it and see what happens.”
It was a lot of straws. It was 8-10 straws and most of them were green and looked like Starbucks cold drink straws. It was at least 4 stopper things... what are those things are called that they put in hot drinks when you go through the Starbucks drive thru? I’m sure there’s a name for them.
I didn’t count. I should have saved all of it and counted and taken a picture. Alas.
I can see grinding up eggshells, or coffee grounds, shit that you shouldn’t put down there at all, but it’s easier to see why you would make that mistake.
But I don’t understand the straws. I really didn’t understand when the 5th or 6th came popping out of the drain in the non-disposal side of my sink, and then just kept coming. But when the stopper things started popping out... they’re hard plastic. Like, really hard plastic. Shit that would break a high powered blender. You could sharpen down one of those things and stab someone.
The guy that came to look at it has to come back tomorrow because the 80 pounds of pressure in the pump (I held down plugs on both sides of my sink when he was pumping in the other apartment, feels like I got a full upper body workout) he was using wasn’t clearing the clog. The snake didn’t clear the clog. He said there’s patching on the wall under her sink where it looks like it’s been taken apart before and sealed up again, and he’s going to take apart the wall again to see where the clog is and remove it.
...Which heavily implies that she’s done this before. The straw lady strikes again.
What I want to know is what is still in there that didn’t come out after all of the chemicals, the pump, and the super long snake couldn’t get loose. Rocks? Bones? A human skull? Car parts? Iron bars? Diamonds?
If you can’t chew it, don’t put it down the disposal.
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