Be honest, how many times in your life have you clogged a toilet?

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Be honest, how many times in your life have you clogged a toilet?

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  2. TacoStrong Avatar

    I don’t know the total but at least once every few months, depends on what I ate and how much fiber is in me thus keeping everything intact and making it clog.

  3. LeakyAssFire Avatar

    I mean, I don’t keep a record or anything, but I would say it’s once every few months.

  4. Danibear285 Avatar

    Intentionally? Zero.

    Unintentionally? A few when I was younger and didn’t think about flushing halfway through, yknow.

  5. JanitorOPplznerf Avatar

    Bro I’m jobless living off spam & rice, while the ball cock assembly (an actual thing, not being funny) is rusted through causing it to stick.

    I’ve lost count how many clogs I had this month

  6. Even-Leadership8220 Avatar

    Bro, I was know for that for a long time.
    2 main issues:
    1: I grew up in an old house so the pipes weren’t that great.
    2: I used to use like 7/8 sheets per wipe.

  7. Patient-Amount3040 Avatar

    Bruh, I once clogged a porta potty

  8. alxndrblack Avatar

    This week you mean?

  9. GoodWaste8222 Avatar

    Literally never

    Edit: you guys really need to rethink your toilet paper usage haha

  10. No_Equal_1312 Avatar

    Counting today?😆

  11. ElCaptain1 Avatar

    Probably once ever week or so

  12. Deep-Youth5783 Avatar

    People count this!?

  13. Affectionate_Team679 Avatar

    That’s like asking how many breathes I’ve taken this morning

  14. Consistent-Wolf-4875 Avatar

    A better question would be, “how many times have you clogged a toilet, on purpose…??”

  15. conspiracysoldiers Avatar

    Probably less than I’ve unclogged. Dad and husband.

  16. Velorian-Steel Avatar

    Enough times to learn some tips I guess.

    Pro tip: five seconds of dedicated flushing will solve most, but not all, situations.

    Pro tip 2: always invest in a good plunger that is proper for a toilet — not a sink plunger!

  17. ilovefortnite220 Avatar

    Most days. I am a big man with masssssive poops. It takes about a quarter roll of tp just to clean my hole.

  18. evh88 Avatar

    Do people keep count of this?!

  19. MindfulNorthwest Avatar

    It’d be creepy to keep count.

  20. whodey920 Avatar

    They don’t call me the mad bomber for nothing

  21. fancydad Avatar

    Since having a bidet… never

  22. numbersthen0987431 Avatar

    I’m not allowed to use the downstairs toilet anymore…..

  23. TripleAinTO2021 Avatar

    45.. once every couple of months I’d say

  24. uglylittledogboy Avatar

    Like actually hundreds of times. Genuinely maybe in the thousands.

  25. lightarcmw Avatar

    3 times.

    2 times at a baseball game.
    1 time at an exes. Oof.

  26. NefariousnessSea4710 Avatar

    Too many times to count

  27. Other-Tip2408 Avatar

    85% of the time, they always to big to flush, i go every 2 days sometimes 3

  28. Fz_Street09 Avatar

    I was supposed to count?

  29. Exhausted_920 Avatar

    Maybe once a year. My brother, on the other hand, clogged our toilet every time he used it. It was the toilet that was advertised to flush an entire bucket of golf balls. He had to buy us a special plunger because the one we had wasn’t strong enough to unclog it.

  30. Coakis Avatar

    I wouldn’t say it happens weekly but its at least once a month.

    Some of us aren’t privy to toilets that firehose your shit down the pipe.

  31. chiksahlube Avatar

    Enough times that when I poop someplace new I locate the plunger before I sit down.

  32. mrhippo3 Avatar

    I lost count decades ago.

  33. WhiskeyDeltaBravo1 Avatar

    Did it at work just a few weeks ago.

  34. Crispy-rice78 Avatar

    Well let’s see, (46×12)365 = 201,480 give or take a good day.

  35. KangoLemon Avatar

    on purpose or naturally?

  36. MuscularShlong Avatar

    Probably a dozen or so. I feel like the quality of the toilet and water pressure has the biggest impact. I dont care how big your shit is, it wont clog like an airport toilet.

  37. CirrusItsACloud Avatar

    Never, because I keep a poop knife at my ready. “Stand your ground!”

  38. Fategfwhere Avatar

    Bout a dozen times

  39. PantherBrewery Avatar

    Once a week. I am depressed about it but know what to do.i am pleased that I do not have constipation often. It could be worse.

  40. SeveralConcert Avatar

    A few. Worst was in a boutique hotel, tried to solve it on my own, couldn’t, and had to ask the owner to unclogg it while my partner enjoy watching me die inside

  41. Ergil99 Avatar

    Every 4th ‘go’.

  42. Hrekires Avatar

    More times than I can count when I was seriously losing weight and eating almost nothing but protein, but never anything that couldn’t be resolved with a good plunger.

  43. [deleted] Avatar

    Since work has this piece of shit eco toilet that saves water and uses vaccum just about every other time i take a crap its flushing 10 times before using the brush since its shaped in a way that causes shit to land right on the porcelain and then i need to go man this manual pump to make it suck it down from the toilet AAAAAAAHHHHHH

  44. AlternativeResort477 Avatar

    Man I don’t have solid stools so never

  45. pchlster Avatar

    Every now and then; then I use a plunger and it fixes things.

  46. Z0OMIES Avatar

    Wait… please don’t tell me that shitting so violently that your toilet breaks is a normal US experience. Why the fuck are you all agreeing?! Pls stop

  47. Mrtorbear Avatar

    I recently discovered that I am guilty of far, FAR fewer clogs than I’d thought. For about a decade I’d have to clear a clog once or twice a month in my master bathroom. Only myself and my then-wife used that toilet, so the suspect list was short. Once we separated, however, the toilet mysteriously stopped clogging. Turns out my ex refused to dispose of tampons in the trash, instead flushing them and fucking up my toilet.

  48. chilehead Avatar

    I don’t keep count, but it’s more than a dozen. Just yesterday it was avoided by Costco having industrial grade in their restroom.

  49. Relevant-Rooster-298 Avatar

    Surprisingly very few times but my wife does it like every week and I have no idea how lol

  50. OsteoArcade Avatar

    Once. It was the last day on my trip down in Mexico. And we were literally on our way out with an hour before we left…sorry to whatever maid discovered that lol

  51. nynv1226 Avatar

    Besides this morning? Countless times. 🤷

  52. SecretaryBubbly9411 Avatar

    A bunch, I’m a big dude, I take big shits.

  53. ShoogerQube Avatar

    Twice and not recently. It’s not even something I think about anymore

  54. fullofsharts Avatar

    Do people not know that you’re allowed multiple flushes per visit? If you can physically feel that it’s a lot, why not just give it a flush before wiping and adding TP to the already full bowl? I’m not sure why people haven’t learned this simple trick.

  55. dg3548 Avatar

    Dooooooood! I went on a “mini mission” for my church for a week. Got dropped off in Monday, the missionaries I was staying with took me shopping so I only bought bread peanut butter and milk. I ate peanut butter sandwiches for 4 days and had not noticed I hadn’t gone poop in 3 days. At the end of the 4th day I had to go. I swear is pooped a tree log. It was touching the bottom of the seat and sticking out. A poo knife would’ve been proud to cut that thing. I did what any sensible teen would do…I flushed it and walked away. The water came up and boiled over and the worse part was that it was a second floor apartment and the old lady in the bottom came up to knock at our door because the water went down to her apartment. That was the last time I had a peanut butter sandwich.

  56. theaquarius1987 Avatar

    With poop, never. When I was a kid I made the toilet overflow by stuffing it with a bunch of toilet paper though….oh to be two again….

  57. Embarrassed_Wall_963 Avatar

    Not many, I’ve unclogged thousands of toilets

  58. doejart1115 Avatar

    Enough to totally avoid evacuating at someone’s house and waiting to get home (or to a public restroom).

  59. rartuin270 Avatar

    Probably about 100 or so in my life time so far. Mostly when I was younger from using too much TP. More recent times has been shitty plumbing that refuses to take the smallest amount of TP. Never clogged it with just poop.

  60. drink-beer-and-fight Avatar

    More than ten but less than twenty.

  61. SpringsSoonerArrow Avatar

    I don’t know but this is clogging my Reddit experience.

  62. serene_brutality Avatar

    I’ve clogged the toilet once that I’m sure of. But I’ve discovered it clogged a few times. Probably 4 outside of that one. Can’t say if it was me or the person before me.

  63. Salty-Pack-4165 Avatar

    Few times. Not very often.

  64. 24rawvibes Avatar

    I’m a deeply closeted homosexual. Do you know what that means?

  65. DaPome Avatar

    Too many. I remember I once clogged one in a bathroom in Narita airport and it overflowed all over the floor.

    Clogged one in an exes parents place too and broke their toilet roll holder while trying to fix it.

    I’ve clogged many a hotel bog too.

    I should probably flush more often.

  66. Vigmod Avatar

    When I was very young and had just learned how to wipe myself. I simply used too much paper per wipe, and that was the problem.

  67. KP_Wrath Avatar

    I don’t remember the number, but as someone with IBS, a bidet and higher quality toilet paper work wonders at preventing it.

  68. Fists_full_of_beers Avatar

    Every time I shit…..I don’t go shit unless there is a plunger close by

  69. Famous_Chain627 Avatar

    I have clogged a clog upon a clog upon a clog!

    https://youtu.be/YzOrj3LiT38?feature=shared

  70. hidazfx Avatar

    It used to happen quite a few times when we moved in to our house. Replaced the toilet and it hasn’t clogged since 🤷‍♂️

  71. imaDapperDanman654 Avatar

    Once, I learned to take a break and flush

  72. jjc927 Avatar

    Several lol, and in a number of different states.

  73. TheEvilSatanist Avatar

    Once I took a shit the size of a baseball, no cap! I literally had to use the plunger to break it up and get it to go down the toilet! Thankfully it was my own toilet bc goddamn that would’ve been embarrassing! 🤣🤣🤣

  74. PM_ME_UR_CATS_TITS Avatar

    Not anymore since we got a bidet, now it all gets pulverized by water jets upon exit

  75. llllllIlIIIlllIllllI Avatar

    More times than I can count. I have so much experience with clogging toilets that when I am a guest at someones house, I do a test flush to test the flush strength and make sure there is a plunger before I use the toilet.

  76. HawaiianShirtMan Avatar

    Reading all these comments disappoints me. Y’all need to take better care of your health and especially your digestive track

  77. hoarduck Avatar

    We were supposed to keep count?

  78. EstablishmentUsed325 Avatar

    Why the fuck would you ask that??! 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

  79. LeadGem354 Avatar

    At least 15 times in over 30 years. Usually I can get it unclogged.

  80. Trumppbuh Avatar

    Nearly every day

  81. Sheikashii Avatar

    Like 100. One time without even toilet paper the plumber had to be called.

    Also if you’re reading this, the only place your plunger should be is right next to your toilet. Not your attic, not your shed, not your closet, and especially not at a store yet to be purchased.

    If you don’t have one there, that’s on you at this point lol

  82. bloopie1192 Avatar

    Used to clog them all the time. Then I moved and I haven’t clogged one since. Hope I never clog one again.

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  84. IncredulousPatriot Avatar

    One of the first times I stayed over at my girls place I clogged the toilet. We were watching tv and she fell asleep. I was like fuck ya perfect opportunity to drop a deuce. I do my business and this thing was a monster. Fuuuck. I knew it was going to clog. I flushed anyway. It clogged. She didn’t have a plunger. Fuuuck. I’m in panic mode now. There is a toilet full of shitty water and a huge turd floating in there. I wash my hands and go back out. She is still asleep. I let it sit in the toilet for a bit hoping it will soften up a bit and go down after a while. I go back in like an hour later. The water has gone back to normal level. So I tried to flush again hoping it was softer now. Still clogged. So I’m like I gotta tell her. So I wake her up and I’m like babe I clogged the toilet. She’s half asleep and doesn’t fully understand. She goes back to sleep. Later she gets up and goes to pee. I tell her it’s still clogged. She finally gets it. Luckily she has roommates and they all have their own bathroom. She goes and borrows a plunger and I have to take care of it before she can pee.

    I bought her a plunger the next time I came over. Haven’t had to use it since.

    So that was the last time I clogged a toilet.

  85. saveyboy Avatar

    Many times.

  86. WriggleNightbug Avatar

    I’m not confident to say never, but I can’t think of any off-hand. Less than 3 in all my years,

  87. _Alpha-Delta_ Avatar

    About none. I’ve unclogged several toilets though. 

  88. GinGimlet Avatar

    Too many to count. Did it this weekend at brunch in fact lmao

  89. creadinger Avatar

    Can I borrow all of you guys’ fingers to count?

  90. jsandspowell Avatar

    More than I can count

  91. General-Plant892 Avatar

    Too many to count

  92. Ricky_Martins_Vagina Avatar

    Twice – once on an oil rig, not realising how utterly pathetic the flushing system was on this particular platform.

    And once in primary school in the 90’s. The tractor had just been round cutting the grass on the playing field, but it didn’t collect the grass so me and my friends decided we’d do the school a favour and get rid of all the cuttings. Cue an entire lunch break of us bundling as much grass as we could into our jumpers and sneaking it into the toilets – the cloggage was inevitable 😂😭

  93. Less-Helicopter-745 Avatar

    My best effort was when I was about seven, and the toilet actually overflowed. Man, at the time I thought it was coming out sideways – that thing was like king kong’s finger.

  94. BooWhoToo Avatar

    Too many times to remember… No. I’m not bragging. 😔

  95. brodus34 Avatar

    I dont keep track of my kills. I’m just a lone soldier in a battlefield trying to make my way home.

  96. Legate_Retardicus84 Avatar

    I only remember one instance.

  97. LT81 Avatar

    Never lol

  98. Harneybus Avatar

    Too many to count… defo shitty experience

  99. R_eloade_R Avatar

    Once! On my way to a festival I asked in a little coffeeshop if I could use the toillet, had one of the biggest shits in my life due to holding it up for hours. Spent a good 20 min in there, wanted to flush and it was just water rising. Freaked to fuck out and went nope, Im outta here. I still remember that lady from the coffeeshop yelling at me when I was getting the hell out of there

  100. DeaddyRuxpin Avatar

    You act like it’s only happened a few enough times that I could keep track.

  101. throwtheamiibosaway Avatar

    Never, I live in a country with S tier pipes and sewage systems.

  102. Cwytank Avatar

    Too many to even count.

  103. marponsa Avatar

    once
    but it was bad enough that wastewater came back up out of the shower drain and i had to call a plumber after a day of trying to get it unclogged

    after thoroughly scubbing the shower and anywhere else i touched that day i took probably the most enjoyable shower of my life, felt absolutely disgusting

  104. Wardogs96 Avatar

    After switching from Charmin ultra strong to ultra soft and getting a bidet a lot less.

  105. concretetroll60 Avatar

    It’s an honor to clog a toilet,that means your bowel movement was one that the porcelain gods couldn’t contain. It’s a right of passage.

  106. probablysum1 Avatar

    Too many to count

  107. SomeSamples Avatar

    A few. But they were inferior toilets. Never clogged one at work. They have those high pressure flushes.

  108. No-Rice-8689 Avatar

    15-20. Mostly while I was young(10-19). As an adult maybe 5. Since I bought a bidet toilet, ZERO!

  109. HelicopterOutside Avatar

    Hundreds of times. The first time I was like four years old.

  110. Ta-veren- Avatar

    Less then a dozen

  111. Temporary-Truth2048 Avatar

    My wife clogged the toilet once, then went shopping for a few hours, and when she came back the water was pouring out from between the foundation and the brick walls. Our entire first floor had to be redone.

  112. sane-asylum Avatar

    Zero, but I’ve tried really hard.

  113. Wazula23 Avatar

    Don’t hurt me like this.

  114. jb4647 Avatar

    I’ve lost count

  115. 56_is_the_new_35 Avatar

    I’m clogging one now….

  116. Secure_Peach5753 Avatar

    Twice. Once in my own home and once at a family member’s. (That was when I was a kid and I didn’t tell anyone but my mom later when we got home lmao)

  117. hamsolo17 Avatar

    Probably too many.

    My three year old has been dropping potato sized dumps for a while now and a few of them I’ve tried to flush and the toilet has gotten clogged and then I’m in there trying to plunger that shit and swearing at myself the whole time like, “Shoulda just thrown it in the diaper bin, you asshole.”

    On the upside, the sewer lines in my neighborhood just got replaced. In talking to one of the construction guys he said the original design of the septic system when this neighborhood was developed in the 50s was “fuckin’ awful, man.” It wasn’t uncommon to see sewage trucks stopped at a neighbors house pretty regularly. They’re already done and our terlet now flushes with more water and power, but I’m still weary to test it out with one of little man’s mighty mega poops.

  118. LEGBur Avatar

    Hah quite a few. After having some bad fish once on vacation. There was no plunger.. had to get the gf go to Walmart and buy one

  119. Saucy_Baconator Avatar

    I stopped counting. I consider it like a game: Battleshitz. If I clog it, I won!

  120. TheBr14n Avatar

    i’ll be honest with you: a lot of times,

  121. carnal_traveller Avatar

    Once more and I get a free set of steak knives!

  122. yellow-snowslide Avatar

    I live in a Country with better plumbing than just countries. Yes, there are differences. I never clogged a toilet

  123. ekimlive Avatar

    Better check my spread sheet for the data… seriously not a number I track

  124. GamaREX Avatar

    As someone with IBS, somehow only once

  125. Deep_Coffee9118 Avatar

    Probably, at least 10… 🤣 🙈

  126. thatdudelarry Avatar

    Ooh! This one’s fun for me. I have a condition called Megacolon – basically my poop-chute is twice the size of a normal colon. With that added size comes added volume. Unfortunately it also increases diameter.

    Sometimes it’s due to the sheer volume, sometimes because it’s bigger around than the hole at the bottom of the toilet – either way, I clog the toilet every single time I poop.

    Related: If unclogging toilets ever becomes an Olympic sport, I’m taking gold.

  127. sporkpdx Avatar

    Too many times to count – I grew up in a house with early low-flow toilets that clogged if you looked at them funny. We wore out multiple plungers.

  128. Alien-Spy Avatar

    Less than 10

  129. PeachBolt Avatar

    Let’s just say enough times to know the plunger is mightier than the sword

  130. CheeseBurgerWalrus30 Avatar

    Way too many to count, yes I’m ashamed. I’m happy modern toilets have stronger flushing than the ones from the 90s-2000s.

  131. AllIWantisAdy Avatar

    Twice. Both of those times were on the same holiday in the States. Lowest amount of any of us from my family. Still don’t know how the plumbing can be that bad.

  132. Duckrauhl Avatar

    It’s a rite of passage into adulthood.

  133. Soigne87 Avatar

    I have only clogged a toilet once and I have massive poops. The key is to flush before wiping. Poop combined with toilet paper is what causes clogs almost all the time. 

  134. icyDinosaur Avatar

    Why is this a common experience for everyone here??? This happened exactly once in my life after I had digestion issues for multiple days. I am now worried for all of you.

  135. GreenSpleenRiot Avatar

    My building is over 100 years old and I don’t think the pipes have ever been replaced. Sometimes it’ll clog on the courtesy flush. And I live alone so the courtesy is only for the toilet itself.

  136. donkeyhoeteh Avatar

    Alot. Iron gut, but lazy colon. Im on fiber and lax supplements. Otherwise, my logs will plug a sewer line.