What do all these things have in common?

Well, this is an overdue post and since I finally got the photos off my camera I thought I would post and share this story. Right around my thyroid surgery one of our toilets was plugged, and even the snake did nothing. There were still 2 other bathrooms to use so it wasn't a priority seeing how I had just had surgery. Well about 2 days later another one was plugged and Chad was obviously upset seeing how we had just replaced one toilet this year because of a constant clogging problem. You don't want to know the details - let's just say Chad is amazing, dedicated and deserved a vacation after that one. So since 2 were clogged, it became a bigger priority, but because of the last experience Chad said, "I am not taking another toilet off again!". I said that was fine, I had no problem doing it when I could lift things again (I'd done it before) - so he'd have to wait a while. In frustration Chad gave in and started with one of the two toilets, this of course was clogged by Eliza dropping an air hockey puck into the toilet and flushing. It was the perfect diameter to block anything from going down; Chad had to get it in just the right position to get it out. Then on to the other toilet; it would flush but it was really slow and anything solid wouldn't go down. So after working to clear it, it seemed something was stuck in just reaching distance. Chad's hand was too big so I bravely stuck my hand into the toilet (I know, I was surprised too!), as I reached in I found item after item settled on the bottom. I grabbed all I could reach and felt that the item we really needed to get to was just up in the bend of the tubing. I couldn't get my hand past it so I was able to convince Katija to try so we wouldn't have to remove yet another toilet (we have removed a toilet about 10 times in the last year - I'm not kidding). She couldn't get up that far either, so again Chad had to remove a toilet. At first he couldn't find anything, but after pushing the snake through over and over he felt something in the way. He had to push it a little at a time to get it to come out the bottom of the toilet. What did he find... a hair clip wedged in the tubing flushed by none other than...ELIZA MAE!!

I'm happy to say she hasn't tried putting anything else in - she was scolded and I think it finally took. So the answer to what do all these things have in common is...they were all flushed down the SAME toilet by Eliza. Some of these things have been missing for a while, I kept loosing tweezers and couldn't figure out where they were going. Now I know - and now they are kept under lock and key :). I don't know how the toilet worked with no problem for this long, I guess toilets are like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're going to get (or what's inside)!!