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Quick Poll: Plunger Etiquette

Your neighbor drops by to borrow your toilet plunger and while you're tracking it down, proceeds to brag about the amazing dump he just took. Five or so minutes later he returns the plunger in a plastic grocery bag, still dripping of toilet water.

A. No biggie - a toilet is a toilet is a toilet.

B. Absolutely not OK. The neighbor should have ponied up for a replacement plunger.

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  • N815394_32920449_260_small
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    I'd have to go with option C. Rinse it off and let it dry before bring it back.

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  • Photo_on_2012-01-03_at_17
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    What exactly do you expect when you loan out a plunger!?! Just be glad he put it in a plastic bag! Option A.

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  • Dscn0421_small
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    Who borrows a plunger?! A cup of sugar, sure. A corkscrew, of course! But a plunger? Unless his toilet was literally overflowing he should have gone to buy his own. If the toilet was overflowing, what new york said, and no conversation about the cause of said toilet malfunction! (Unless you guys are friends, and enjoy this kind of raillery.)

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  • Icon_small
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    I think I would've just let him keep it.

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  • Davidclose2_small
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    It's not so much his poop germs than the fact he wasn't nice enough to let it dry out in his apartment for one night. It'd make me feel like I wasn't so much doing him a favour than being used as some kind of toilet-plunger-dispensary.

    At the very least, he should have washed, disinfected, dried, and then returned it.

    Personally, I'd just buy you a new plunger. They cost close to nothing considering how much stress they can save you, and everyone should have one anyway.

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  • Spaceship_small
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    A. A toilet is a toilet. Even your use of the plunger is offensive to someone.

    At the least, he should attempt to wash it off and make it more presentable to you before returning it.

    However, anyone who brags about the dump he just took... well, he's got issues anyway...

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  • Sacri_ordines_by_charism_small
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    Boil. In bleach.

    But seriously, do NOT loan out your plunger. Any mildly OCD person knows this: Anything that touches anything that touches your insides should never be loaned out or touched by anyone else ever.

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  • Lookalikes_small
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    I dunno, our neighbor never brought our really good plunger back when he did that. I was afraid to remind him, since I wondered if it was so unspeakably contaminated he was embarrassed to return it.

    I went 10 years living alone without even owning a plunger, but with my husband and stepsons, that thing's seen pretty much daily duty. I do not understand how that is anatomically possible, clogging a toilet, but it happens. It was a happy day when we were finally able to get the boys to understand, you clog it, YOU plunge it. There are few things I hate worse in this world than finding a toilet either overflowing or clearly not flushing.

    Oh, and if I got a fouled one back, I'd take it into the backyard and hose it down or put it in a bucket with a little bleach. But I have seven older brothers, and the aforementioned stepsons, so I'm pretty unsqueamish about the whole shit parade by now.

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