my job doesn't pay me enough for this...

and it wasn't in the job description.

so. i work at a mental health facility, and alot of interesting things happen in a day, and you take it all in stride. most things. but today, someone had shoved a huge wad of paper towels down the toilet and flushed, resulting in an overflowing toilet and a flooded room. they were the heavy brown kind, that you find in most public restrooms.

guess who got the job of removing the paper towels? so there i am, armed with gloves, pulling this huge wad of towels out, and then i saw a smaller wad of paper towel, that fell out of the big wad. so, without thinking, i picked it up. about the time i realized it didn't really feel like the other paper towels i was holding, i smelled something "pongy" (nick's word for bad smelling). it only took a few seconds for the horrible realization to hit me: it was not paper towel i was holding; it was poo!

i washed my hands a million times and still feel compelled to wash them again. yeah, and the other girls thought they were having a bad day because they had to mop up toilet water.

like i said. i don't get paid enough.