Recently I was inspired by a post by Sprite's Keeper called I believe torque is involved in some way or another. In it little Sprite lost her Little Mermaid down the toilet. This reminded me of the time I lost my Captain (no, not Captain my Captain) down the drain:
I'm not sure how many of you remember the Playschool wooden people— you know, the ones with the round heads on top of what looks like a sewing spool. When I was little, Playschool just came out with a house boat that you could play with in the water. This was the first time that I remember them making their wooden people out of plastic.
So, here I am playing with the boat in the bathtub and having a grand time. I'm sure that many of you jerry-rig your tub drains so that they don't clog and they drain faster. Being the age of 5 at the time, I was well familiar with how to pull out the tub plug to make it drain faster— what I was not familiar with was how the wooden/plastic people float in the water straight up and down.
The next thing I know the captain of the ship did not only go down with the ship, but he went down the drain as well. This probably wouldn't be a problem, but we lived in a ranch style house and who knows how you could access the drain to get something that went down it. I could just picture the captain stuck in the u of the pipe and causing the drain to not drain properly again. I'm sure that my dad just grabbed the drain-o and poured it down the bathtub drain to get rid of the clog— poor captain…
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I've never lost anything down the tub drain but my youngest used to throw pencils, toothbrushes, and various toys into the toilet and then flush it. I lost count of how many times my dad had to come take the toilet apart and fish something out of it. It's funny now that she's older, but not so much when it was happening.
Have a great day!
I only lost rings and earings down the drain.. but I would have been sad to loose a toy for sure!
Wait!
Did the Drano work?
Did it disintegrate the wooden Captain?
I only ask because we have various toys and q-tips stuck down our tub drain. *grin*
You had the houseboat??? Lucky! I was too old for those toys, but luckily I had brothers who were much younger, so I was able to ply with their toys under the guise of babysitting them. I loved all those playskool toys!
I remember my brother playing with those. It is amazing what you forget and then remember! Thanks for sharing your Captain memories!
I love that losing the Captain was traumatic enough for you to remember it all these years. Poor little you!
Oh, I remember those little people and in fact had that same house boat! I think it had a retractable diving board off the back and... wait for it... little yellow life preservers that snapped on their non-existent shoulders. Hmmm. Too bad your captain wasn't wearing his that fateful day!
Mon Capitan! Poor baby. Both you and the captain.
Isn't it funny what triggers our memories? I bet you were so sad to lose that toy.
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