Chicagoboyz Helpful Tip of the Day
Posted by Jonathan on December 21st, 2008 (All posts by Jonathan)
If you get invited for a ride on someone’s boat, and you use the toilet, which is of a type that you have never used before and has a pump handle that you have to turn to the left, and then pump, and then turn to the right and pump again, or something like that, do not, whatever you do, pump the handle even more vigorously if it does not immediately appear to be clearing the bowl.
December 21st, 2008 at 11:14 am
hahaha. Marine toilets for some reason never seem to work very well. Over the side next time.
December 21st, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Well, having once committed oneself what is the remedy?
December 21st, 2008 at 4:06 pm
What, no photo?
December 21st, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Is this a metaphor for the current bailout mania? Maybe they should stop pumping ever harder.
December 21st, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Ha. It didn’t seem like a metaphor at the time but maybe you are on to something.
December 21st, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Pressure and sewage. Never a good combination. Reminds me of my childhood attempt to create a methane fuel fermenter out an old pressure cooker. High pressure liquified manure everywhere.
It’s gravity feed or nothing in my book.
December 22nd, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Luckily, the captain was able to solve the problem while Jonathan ably took the helm.
But where are the pics?
December 22nd, 2008 at 1:32 pm
The captain was very gracious under the circumstances.
Regrettably, I did not photograph this part of the boat.