Side Note: He set a deadline to have all these little tasks done by my birthday (which is on Friday, YIPPEE!!!!) so we have been hard at work for a few months now.
The Hubs was stripping the caulk out of the master shower since the old caulk was icky and moldy and falling off. While he was doing that I was in the guest bathroom cleaning the floor, baseboards and wainscoting we had installed by our handy dandy contractor neighbor a few months ago so we could caulk around the floor so water doesn't get behind the baseboards and mold. Once I finished up I went downstairs to grab his shopvac so I could suck up the old caulk he was removing.
I carried the shopvac up 3 flights of stairs amid hyper scrambling dogs thinking I was playing a game of moving obstacle course with them. I'm amazed I didn't trip or fall once. And if you know me and how big a klutz I am you should be amazed too since I slip or fall down/up stairs all the time when I'm walking alone completely undistracted.
I made it past the finish line, according to the dogs into the bedroom and put the vac down to wheel into the bathroom and get to work. The Hubs switched locations with me and went to work in the guest bathroom laying the caulk down. I proceeded to vacuum up the old icky caulk into the shopvac and was actually enjoying using the vac (I totally see why men love these things now, they suck up ANYTHING). For the briefest moment, or what seemed like a brief moment I accidentally let the hose sucking thingy sit over the drain in the shower.
OH!
MY!
GOODNESS!
DO NOT EVER LET THIS HAPPEN DO-IT-YOURSELFERS!!! EVER.
It's as if time froze, or suddenly went into slow motion like it does in the cheesy 80s movies we all love and hold dear to our hearts. I pulled the hose away from the drain and with it came some of the most horrible, icky, nasty, dirty, foulest smelling, grody water ever. It sprayed my face, arms, clothes, hair, and some of the shower.
I sat there stunned. Not by the horrendous water on my body and clothes, but by the stench that quickly followed. It was AWFUL! I almost gaged but didn't thankfully. I shut off the vac, quickly washed my face and arms and then left the bathroom because it really smelled rank.
I went to check on The Hubs and see how he was doing with the caulk and he was doing a great job, easy as pie. Until he reached the point behind the toilet where his big manly body was having a hard time contorting to get the caulk in the right places. So I offered my services seeing as I'm smaller. :) As soon as I bent over to help him out his face contorted, he blew air out of his nose, leaned away from me and said "Why do you smell like THAT?!"
I told him what happened, he let me finish the caulking and then made me take a shower. Immediately. Ha!
This is the best picture I could find online to show you what came out of our drain last night.
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