Dark Water

When a family with two bathrooms, has one that is occupied and one that is out of commission--what does one do when one is experiencing an emergency evacuation? You might pound on the door of the occupied room, only to be scuttled off... but if you can't hold it, would you try to use the one that doesn't work? Yes, yes, you would.

And what if when you tried a test flush, everything went nuts--and water began to run everywhere? You'd scream for help, and help would come and the water would flow, and it would flow. The gerbil occupying the floor of the bathroom (placed there so the baby could sleep at night) would slowly begin to drown as the water level continued to rise.

The handsome father would rush to the basement and cut off the water supply to the house, and then return upstairs to ask the kids for some towels. The children would run to the closet and return with washcloths! "Not good enough," says dad--and he would race down the hall for the beach towels to sop up the water that is raining through the floor and into the garage below.

At the end of this day, everyone is safe and everyone is dry--and at least one bathroom, is back in action.