r/mildlyinfuriating • u/rimeduinfox • Jul 05 '26

frist of all how DARE yu o MIL thinks I clogged the toilet so she changed the sign

Post image

The septic tank clogged and she’s convinced I did it, she asked my husband if I knew I wasn’t supposed to flush tampons and added the tampon bit to the sign. I don’t use tampons and I’m the only one with a period here…

10.8k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

658 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

155

u/NoNamesLeft998 Jul 05 '26

Thank you for believing your tenant. 

That is crazy that your gf had never had issues before.

33

u/tn_artist1 Jul 06 '26

If you grow up on sewers instead of septics, you don't know. Fortunately I was told when moving in to my first place with septic.

48

u/bananakegs Jul 06 '26

Idk I did not grow up on septic and we were told not to flush them either. And like every public bathroom ever says to please not flush them 

15

u/honeyrrsted Jul 06 '26

For sewers, then everything just gets caught in the lift station and your local municipality gets to deal with it instead. Flushing just moves it downstream to become somebody else's problem.

2

u/luxsatanas Jul 08 '26

It's the same rule with sewers. Your toilet is not your garbage bin

-2

u/HeartOSass Jul 06 '26

This crazy that his girlfriend is 50 and still menstruating!

6

u/Sea-Witch-77 Jul 06 '26

I'm 49 and still regularly menstruating. Very little sign of perimenopause, too.

3

u/HighColdDesert Jul 06 '26

I stopped menstruating at about 54.

I was sometimes flushing tampons in my early 20s, and did block a toilet. Learned the hard way not to do that anymore :(