The typical American family has 1.87 children. Numbers can be so terribly fascinating, don’t you think? Using a strict interpretation, no American family could be considered typical because children always arrive in integer quantities.
No one uses a strict interpretation in this context, however. Only writers who are obsessed with wordplay make serious attempts to create humor, interest or blogs from this type of verbal fodder.
I can tell I’m losing 74.6 percent of my audience at this point, and rightly so. Let’s get to my inspiration for today’s thoughts.
We visited relatives over the New Year’s weekend. My wife’s cousin lives in a house next door to her mother. Perhaps due to the holiday fare, it was my distinct pleasure to unplug not one, but two toilets today. One in each residence. Making this process more interesting is that these two households share a single plunger.
I don’t need to go into great detail for obvious reasons, but these are brand new homes sporting the legally-required low flush toilets. I’m probably dating myself, but the units from the old days that used more water didn’t seem to plug up as often, and were easier to unplug. One of the plugs today was particularly troublesome, requiring five minutes and several flushes to clear the blockage.
The lesson learned in 1.9 days of holiday fun? Families that have 2.3 toilets of the 1.6 GPF variety should maintain 2.2 plungers per household. At least that’s my 2.5 cents worth.
