A little public service announcement to the girls on my hall.

[hopefulnebula]

Look. I do not care if the label on your box of tampons says they're flushable. I'm sure they would be, if you didn't live with 35 other people sharing six toilets. Not to mention the people below. Toilet water doesn't come from nowhere, you know. And it doesn't just disappear. And I'm amazed you haven't realized by now that when everybody and her sister flushes their bloody tampons down the same damn toilet:

a) the toilet will clog
b) nothing you put in there will flush properly.

So cut it out. You're disgusting.

In other news, I feel very much like crawling into bed and dying, but that wouldn't be a very good idea.

Comments

[easybeef.livejournal.com]

This was a horrible problem on any ship I've been stationed on. To make it worse, the sewage had to be ground before going off the ship, and tampon strings freeze up the motors, requiring all of our tax dollars to repair at $40K a motor. Ugh, nasty.

[zogblog.livejournal.com]

My dad used to be in the Navy (USS Kamehameha SSBN 642). I think that he's glad that he doesn't have to deal with that stuff anymore.

[hopefulnebula]

Ugh. See, that's why I prefer pads. Though I suppose in the military, they wouldn't be very useful.