Yesterday I cooked up a healthy dinner of chicken and baked sweet potato and onion. Delicious - yes, good for the sink - no. I happily peeled the sweet potato into the sink, as I'd seen my mom do many times with potatoes. After I was finished peeling the potatoes, I stuffed the peelings into the drain, flipped on the garbage disposal, and went on with making dinner. What a good wife I am, right? Welllllllll.. I started cleaning some of the dirty bowls and quickly noticed there was a problem. The water wasn't draining. Those happy, little potato peelings clogged the sink. Oh yeah, mom used the sink to peel into, but then put the peelings in the trash. Whoops!
Ahhh.. Life lessons. While I learned that potato peelings DO NOT belong down the drain, Nate learned how to unclog a sink. What learning this marriage brings us!
My husbo, taking care of my mess:
DO NOT PUT POTATO PEELINGS DOWN THE DRAIN:
As punishment, Nate made me scrub the floor until he "could eat off it." So mean:
Of course I was kidding on the last part!! I just happened to be cleaning the floor as Nate unclogged the drain :)Can't wait to see what lessons we have ahead of us! Good thing I have a handy husband because knowing me, there will be a lot!
2 comments:
A good lesson learned, and you're so young . . . way ahead of the game!
Here's a related lesson I learned recently; at the risk of being a "one-upper,"let me save you some mess: when you clog the drain with shredded cabbage (a close relative to potato peelings, I think)and you have to take the pipes apart when your husband isn't home :( and then you find the clog didn't even make it to the trap and you have to take more pipes apart . . . Don't, don't, whatever you do, DON'T turn the disposal on while the pipes are not connected or you will have something in your under-the-sink cupboard I like to call "super salad shooter meets clogged drain." Not a pretty sight. And an even less pretty mess to clean up.
Oh Nikki....I can so totally relate to this incident? I did the same thing with regular potatoes. Then in attempting to unclog the disposal, one of the connectors under the sink EXPLODED.......and we had ground-up peelings and water all over the cabinet, inside and out, then all over the floor, and all over anything that was in the cabinet under the sink. What a colossal mess! I, too, have a very handy husband, and between us, we got the mess cleaned up. I've learned that I can put peelings in the disposal, BUT only a few at a time and make sure I grind them up before adding more! YIKES!
Auntie Yvonne
PS: I didn't read Emily's post till I had written this. She and I must be kindred spirits!
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