The Awful Horrible Thing That Happened One Morning

The Awful Horrible Thing That Happened One Morning

So, some of you know that an awful horrible thing happened to me one morning.  I realized that I hadn't made a blog post since this incident happened and I decided that it was time for me to blog about it.  Alan and I have a routine when we pack up and leave a place.  I handle the inside of the RV and he handles outside.  This means while I am stowing things from the counters, making up the beds and putting everything away and compressing the slide-outs, Alan is outside draining the black and grey water tanks, putting away the chairs, unplugging and stowing all the cables and hookups...

One morning I was busily putting stuff away in the RV when I heard a weird gurgling sound coming from the bathroom.  I'd never heard that sound before and went into the bathroom to make sure everything was okay.  I was a little concerned because we had just replaced the toilet and now I was hearing this gurgling.  Something wasn't right.  

Alan was outside doing his jobs and I thought I'd just check into it myself.

... I went into the bathroom and shut the door.  I could tell the sound was coming from the toilet.  I lifted the lid to look and see what was happening and noticed air bubbles coming up out of the seal.  My thought was that the seal must not be all the way shut and that if I depressed the foot pedal that opens the seal it would quickly open it and shut it and seal it all the way...

As I was intently looking at the seal I depressed the foot pedal, revealing a spigot of black water erupting out of the toilet under high pressure.  I had a split second where I shut my eyes just before the jetstream of poopy water hit me straight in the face.  It hit with such force that it ricocheted off my face all over the bathroom and over the top of the bathroom door into the hallway.  Luckily my foot slipped off the pedal and shut off the explosion after my initial bombardment.  I then screamed and the boys came running and burst out laughing upon seeing what had happened to me.  I was literally sprayed full in the face with a three inch wide stream of black water - poopy black water - that had also sprayed all over the bathroom.

Apparently Alan had decided to clean out the water tanks by filling them with water from the hose and had been distracted from this job and overfilled the tanks.  The pressure buildup was causing the gurgling sound and when I opened the valve to the black water tank it released the pressure straight at me!  

We laughed off this incident and I wiped down the bathroom with Lysol and took a Lysol shower myself.  I've since learned that if I hear a weird noise in the RV I just call Alan to come and see what it is!

And that's the horrible disgusting thing that happened one morning on the trip...