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2007.12.06 @ 14:31:13 How not to start a day

If there's one device in the house that you want to work the first time, every time, with no hiccups, what would it be? Really... stop to think about it for a minute. Ok, that's long enough. For me, yesterday, I realized it's the toilet. I can function for several days without anything else working, but that, that's a necessity in the truest sense of the word. So, yesterday I wake up, and like most days the first thing on the agenda is a trip to the bathroom. For those unsure, yes, I am human, and yes, I do use the bathroom. So I'm done, and close the lid (who really wants to watch anymore... and I've heard stories of "spray", so I push the handle to flush. The handles moves down with much less force than normally required. Nothing happens. It also doesn't have the same force pulling it back when I let go. I giggle it, because, that's just what you do when things don't work. After a giggle or two, it's obvious that something is broken. I pull the lid off, and there it is. The metal bar piece that connects the handle to the chain has broken. So I pull the chain up myself, to get things going, and proceed to look at this broken piece of metal. How the heck? It hardly looks broken, so I investigate to see if perhaps the two pieces of metal were attached together some other way, but this is clearly not the case. Oh, and they're covered in mineral build-up, so I have to scrape some of that looking for a hole where a small bolt may have been. Nope. None of that. So, I guess I'm left to reattaching it with my macgyver skillz, or buying a new handle dumaflachi.