Posted on 11/23/2023 6:28:29 AM PST by Duke C.
Plumbers across the country are bracing themselves for "Brown Friday," a four-day sewage fest that takes place coast to coast when people start dumping their Thanksgiving leftovers down the disposal, in both the kitchen and the bathroom, leading to massive backups.
Brown Friday is easily the busiest time of year for plumbers, with Roto-Rooter estimating a 50% spike in calls on Friday. Plumbers see a 21% jump on the four-day weekend as a whole.
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This is why I studied Chemistry and Electricity, no poop.
Wow, hard to tell the difference between reality and The Bee.!They seem to intersect more and more often these days…
Just. Wow. I never knew.
What a crappy story.
A lot of our turkey carcass is going into turkey soup. Cooking now.
“Space, the final frontier. Sewage, the final back-tier.”
Kitchen drains stop up from all the cooking and pouring off of greasy liquids and any mild root problem that is going unnoticed when one or two people are in the house because it is still draining slowly can show up as a stoppage when a crowd arrives and the sewer line needs to be functioning at full capacity.
Plumber friend (trying to convince me to be his plumber helper when I retire) told me this a couple months ago. He said, “I get callouts sometimes, and I never take Thanksgiving week off work, because that is my busiest time”
This is why you have a dog. Give the leftovers to a dog.
... after Cinco de Mayo.
My garden thrives from composting scraps and leftovers.
My turkey hits the smoker in a few minutes.
Me and another guy cooked 13 birds last weekend. Fried and Trash Can Turkeys.
What can Brown do for you?
It came early for me. I had to snake my kitchen drain last week.
I was at a Christmas party some years ago and a plumber was there as one of the guests. (He was the best dressed guy at the party.) As luck would have it, one of the kids stopped up a toilet and he was able to quickly fix the problem. He told the host that he was fortunate he was there because paying for his services on Christmas Day would have been incredibly expensive. LOL
My plumber told me to take a stool softener.
The garbage disposal had to be invented by a plumber to boost his business.
I can believe that. I took the disposal out of the house we bought. Apparently garbage disposals and septic tanks do not play well together.
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