Working from home at the minute - quickly popped into the loo, went to wash my hands and realised the sink was blocked so then have just had to spend the best part of an hour with a long piece of wire, pulling all manner of hair (two long haired teenage DC who despite repeated telling a brush their hair over the sink, whilst looking into the bathroom mirror and just leave their hair to wash down the sink!!!), soap scum, facial scrub remnants, mould and stuff that to be honest I couldn’t identify and probably don’t want to think too much about, out of the plug hole and then cleaning out the plug/trap thing.
Was totally vile! However, the sink does now drain!
Whilst doing it - I was thinking back to the days (I am now 50) when I would have just called “Muuum, sink’s blocked” and go back to the book I was reading, or doing my hair or whatever I had been doing and it would have been somehow sorted out.
I really, really didn’t appreciate how much easier things were when someone else was did all this kind of stuff ....
I just have tried explaining this to DC (whilst waving a mould, soap scum and long hair covered piece of wire at them!) but although they nodded and said “Ugh!”, I don’t think they truly get it...
I am going to be reminding them of this moment in 30 years time....