Plumber and the Toilet

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A customer calls plumber Adrian claiming that flushing the bathroom toilet makes sewage come out of the kitchen sink.

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Speaker 1

Listen.

Speaker 1

So listen, Adrian, we'd be me.

Speaker 2

Mrs.

Speaker 2

How you doing?

Speaker 2

You you the person that does the plumbing work, am I right?

Speaker 3

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2

Now my wife got some work done for you.

Speaker 2

You come by the house.

Speaker 2

Now do you know?

Speaker 2

Um I know you probably got quite a bit of work.

Hmm.

Speaker 3

No, well, I I do so many throughout the day, so I have it on my receipt here I can look at over here.

Speaker 3

Yeah, yeah, I yeah, I can recall.

Speaker 3

Was a lady there.

Speaker 2

Yeah, you you it was a toilet was backed up and was overflowing and Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can recall that.

Speaker 2

And there's something was wrong with the s the sink in there too, you know that had a leak in the back of it.

Speaker 3

Yeah, it had a leak in the back and uh and I done that.

Speaker 3

I fixed that there for you and uh I took that toilet that had a uh around the bottom of your base, the toilet base there.

Speaker 3

I had to take that up and and retape it 'cause that tape had came uh came loose.

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It was kinda old there and I you know went through that and done all that and and taped it up and and sealed it up and and I rebased that seal back there on your in the toilet and and your sink had a little leak back there in the back.

Speaker 3

I'll fix that because it you know that was real easy out.

Speaker 2

So now see that that is something that went wrong with that toilet.

Speaker 2

Now did you did you put a another pipe or something?

Speaker 2

Did you reroute a pipe or anything?

Speaker 3

No, no, like I said, all I did I took the base of it off there and I taped it up to where that is that old tape there, and then I I put me some cement which was was with uh with my pipe there and I and I I sealed it all up and I checked it out and let it dry to see if it leaked and it didn't leak, and I put your base back on

Speaker 3

and you know, and then I then I then you had a little leak there in your uh sink and that was on the top of of the the uh the nozzle there and I fixed that for you.

Speaker 2

I'm gonna tell you, 'cause I I'm gonna be honest with you and tell you I'm not happy with what I got.

Speaker 3

You not happy with it?

Speaker 2

No.

Speaker 2

Now let me tell you what's happening.

Speaker 3

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2

Now say somebody in the bathroom and they flush their toilet.

Speaker 3

Right, right.

Speaker 2

When they flush that toilet, come out the sink in the kitchen.

Speaker 3

Hold on.

Speaker 3

Tell me that, tell me that.

Speaker 3

Say that what you did again.

Speaker 2

I said when they flush the toilet in the bathroom.

Right.

Speaker 2

Come out the sink in the kitchen.

Speaker 2

It come out in the kitchen like that.

Speaker 2

I don't know what how you route something like you didn't you didn't know Just routed or something.

Speaker 3

No, I didn't I didn't route anything.

Speaker 3

All I did was fix the I put the tape on there so I didn't fix the leak.

Speaker 3

That was, you know, your your uh at the base of your toilet.

Speaker 3

I didn't reroute anything.

Speaker 3

I I don't I don't understand how can you re you reroute a pipe.

Speaker 3

I don't that's product pipe to go into your kitchen and shoot will shoot crap out of your kitchen like that.

Speaker 2

I don't know what what what you did when you was up under there and how you rerouted something, but that's what happened, and it's got it's got it's going from the from that bathroom when you flush that toilet, it come out in my sink in my kitchen.

Speaker 2

Now, what's bad about it is this morning I'm in there cooking.

Speaker 3

So

Speaker 3

what is your name again?

Speaker 2

My name is They call me.

Okay.

Speaker 3

And crap is coming out of your your farming in your in my in my kitchen.

Speaker 2

Now this morning, I set out some red beans and rice to cook.

Speaker 2

And I put my beans on.

Speaker 2

Not not I've been cooking, I've been cooking.

Speaker 2

Listen at me.

Speaker 3

I've been cooking all.

Speaker 3

No, no, I'm I'm trying to be professional about this, because you know, I guarantee my work, I've been doing this over 20 years.

Speaker 3

And the one thing I do, I I guarantee my work, and I'm real proud about the things that you know I do.

Speaker 3

But uh what what did you have anybody else over there working on your pipe?

Speaker 3

Ain't nobody in your in your kitchen.

Speaker 3

All I did was your bathroom.

Speaker 3

You is the only room.

Speaker 3

The bathroom don't have anything to do with your kitchen.

Speaker 3

That's real tight.

Speaker 3

Have anything to do with one or the other.

Speaker 2

Then explain that coming through my sink in my kitchen.

Speaker 3

I can't explain it coming from your your sink.

Speaker 3

I can only explain that's in the toilet.

Speaker 3

I have no idea.

Speaker 2

I'm gonna listen, I because this done got me round up listening.

Speaker 3

What it is Well, you got me kind of round up here, because you know, like I said, I do this here, and I've been doing it for 20 years, and that's the first time I ever heard of anything like that being happening.

Speaker 3

I ain't never seen it.

Speaker 2

Well, now I'm gonna tell you it's just disgusting to be cooked to cook red beans all day, and I now find out that it's sitting Some dirty water like that.

Speaker 3

You didn't smell water when you was in it in your seat?

Speaker 3

I'm quite sure they didn't allow uh uh uh uh smell.

Speaker 2

I didn't smell nothing.

Speaker 2

Now this more earlier this morning I washed my hair in there.

Speaker 2

And I didn't smell what I washed my hair in there.

Speaker 2

That's just what it smelled like.

Speaker 2

A burger.

Speaker 3

I'm just I just I just refuse to believe that the work I did on your toilet in there, taping some stuff up and seaming some stuff up, and on your seat ain't anything to do with crap being shot out of your damn uh kitchen seat.

Speaker 2

Well, I tell you what, what I need to do is for you to get your back over here and fix it, because this here ain't a good job, and I don't recommend nobody using you.

Speaker 3

Well, first of all, why I'm trying to be professional about it, and you cussing me, and that ain't gonna get nothing done, mister.

Speaker 2

Once come out my pipe, it was no longer professional.

Speaker 3

Well, I was if you had somebody else over there doing something in your seat.

Speaker 2

I ain't had nobody.

Speaker 3

Do you have a gun's disposal in that?

Speaker 2

It ain't high in the world and crap uh coming out of my gut.

Speaker 2

You get your back over here and you fix what you supposed to fix and think it right.

Speaker 2

And I'm not paying another damn dime for it.

Speaker 3

I didn't come up here and fix a game.

Speaker 3

I tried to be professional about it.

Speaker 3

I'm listening to what you gotta say.

Speaker 3

I should have hung up on your long time ago, but I'm getting her team of work.

Speaker 3

And I'm trying to, you know, do with my customers.

Speaker 3

When I left around, I told her to flash the toilet, she flushed the toilet, she ran the faucet in the bathroom.

Speaker 3

We had no problem.

Speaker 3

Now, if you don't have somebody else over there that's doing whatever, Lord knows what I don't I damn sure don't know.

Speaker 2

Do you know how none of my business?

Speaker 2

I ate some of them red beans, and that's what bothered me now.

Speaker 2

I feel sick to my stomach.

Speaker 3

I'm feeling that you eat some red beans and whatever the hell you eat over there.

Speaker 3

It's really like why you you put in hell.

Speaker 2

I'm gonna make your eat some of these red beans if you don't cover Vic these pipes.

Speaker 3

You can go ahead and I'm trying to be professional attack and told me.

Speaker 3

I did it the best I know I could.

Speaker 3

If I got left there, wasn't nothing leaking.

Speaker 3

One fight goes with the other like I did.

Speaker 3

You get over here and take these fight.

Speaker 3

That's what you're

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looking for.

Speaker 3

I knew how standing job over there.

Speaker 2

You ain't done nothing.

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If I done

Speaker 3

being around, speak them up here.

Speaker 3

You and your fight and all the I don't give a damn.

Speaker 2

I know what's coming up.

Speaker 3

I ain't done nothing over there in your girl's kitchen.

Speaker 3

And have you done up shit with me?

Speaker 2

I got one more thing I want to say to you.

Speaker 2

Did you listen?

Speaker 3

I'm listening to you.

Speaker 2

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Speaker 2

You just got played by your boy.

Speaker 3

Are you kidding me?

Speaker 3

Hey, y'all, y'all crazy, man.

Speaker 2

Hey man, I gotta ask you, big time.

Speaker 2

What is the badest?

Speaker 2

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Okay.