The Toto toilet has been dependable (read: doesn’t clog) since last August when we met it and it became part of our family.
Last week began with a four-day period of bowel inactivity. This is average. This is not cause for concern. It is well below my personal best of two weeks. However, when the inactivity was … over … the Toto did not dispose of it in its usual charming way, with the deluge and the woosh and the disappearance and the satisfying ca-chunk (go here, jump to 32 seconds in). Instead, there was the deluge, the disappearance, and then it acted like a normal toilet. It filled and it drained, only slowly, and no soul-satisfying ca-chunk.
I told Gary, and thus began an evening of toilet diagnosis. We got quite an education in plunger types and plunging technique. He would see a video, try that technique, I would read an article, try that technique, and all along the Toto would just drain slowly and, as I say, no ca-chunk, the Toto way of saying, “Poop? What poop? No one poops in this house.”
This lasted till two in the morning when I pleaded with Gary, “Stop. It. Stop flushing. Stop plunging. I have to get up in the morning.”
In the morning, of course, the first flush showed great improvement, and the second ended with the ca-chunk that filled my heart with song.
This week, it has now been five days.
2 responses to “Toto Fails Me”
Have you ever tried a bidet toilet? Heated seat, range of washing and drying options? I bonded with my hotel one in Seoul last week, miss it dearly.
Big Dot – the one bidet I did use was essentialy just a bathtub spigot attached to a toilet, not a fancy heated one. They do have them for Totos, but I’d have to run electricity.