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oneiros · Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Location: Villa Straylight

Just had a unique household mishap. I was washing my clothes by hand in a big storage container because the washing machines in my apartment are on the roof, and all the rain flooded out the laundry room.

Anyway, I was going to pour the water out into the shower drain thingy on my bathroom floor, but I miscalculated, and dumped the whole thing out into the little indented shoe storage place in front of my door. Okay, the fact that it's indented did save my living room floor from being flooded. Unfortunately, besides soaking all my shoes, the water ran out into the apartment building's hallway.

I feel guilty about just leaving a huge puddle of soapy water out there, so I grab a mop to try to clean it up. Which is when my neighbours come home. While I'm standing in my nightgown, cleaning up a big puddle of laundry water.

And that's when I realized that this situation could never have happened in Canada. Very Happy

Anyone else ever have any unique household accidents?

matesol · Joined: 23 Jan 2003

Don't feel guitly about leaving water in the hallway. I'm married and dropped a whole schwack of cash for key price for a lovely 3 bedroom 2 bathroom apartment (32 pyong). There's a drunken Ajushi who can never find his way home. One morning I woke up and there was a pool of pink vomit in front of my door and several times he has gotten sick in the elevator and we all have had to have that lingering smell around for days. It doens't go away, even after the janitor cleans it. God, I can't wait to get out of this country ...

baldrick · Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Location: Location, Location

I got my head stuck in a kimchi refidgerator.

VanIslander · Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 5:25 pm Post subject:

(No 'd' in refrigerator.) I've had no trouble with my fridge.

My rooftop laundry machine has been flooded before, an accident because someone forgot to put the plastic cover back on it.

Here's an accident: I rusted out both my razor and the shaving can by showering next to the sink and the shelf. Now I put all metal higher up and away from the sink area.

I've flooded the bathroom with my hair in the drain. That's a first for me.

No biggie.

peppermint · Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2004 9:33 pm Post subject:

A friend nearly singed off eyebrows when he tried to light a cigarette off of the stove.He wasn't thinking about the difference between a two burner gas range, and a four burner electric stove.

kangnamdragon · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea

Wisco Kid · Joined: 07 Sep 2004 Location: Changwon

I never hit my head on the cieling in the bathroom back home.
I'm a little taller than average I guess but I'm no NBA player. It is seriously a low cieling.