Not for the easily grossed out.

The kitchen sink has been clogged for the past couple of days. No amount of jabbing the drain with pointy objects has helped. When I went back home yesterday evening, it was really gross. Water was slowly dripping from the pipe joint and that whole area looked like someone had puked and hadn’t cleaned up properly. So I decided to take matters into my own hands – literally. I unscrewed the pipe and took it, gingerly, to the place where we keep our brooms and mops and dead dustbins. There was a tap there. I filled this pipe with water, the water just poured out of the top. There was a broken broom next to the tap. My room mate’s mom handed me a long piece of wood from it and told me to unblock it. That’s when things got really shitty. I stuck it through the pipe, it hit a blockage. I pushed it through and then I almost puked. The stuff that came out was vegetable waste. Congealed and old. Have you ever been downwind from a garbage van? That’s how bad it smelled. Worse, I had to clean this crap up, wash and clean the pipe and put it back under the sink. That took another half hour. Just thinking of it makes me want to barf.

P.S. On a better smelling note, my room mate’s mom is here for a week. That is a week of good food people! Yesterday, she made sambar and brinjal. Normally, I wouldn’t go near brinjal with a 10 foot pole, but yesterday, I loved it. AND she had taken out the coffee filter & the coffee that I had brought from Chennai and made decoction! I had filter coffee yesterday and this morning! Coffee! Good Coffee! Like my mom went on a rampage and bought a zillion stuff for the kitchen, D's mom also went on a rampage and bought everything that my mom had missed. SO we have a fully functional, stocked kitchen now. Let’s see what gets used after she leaves. She bought homeopathy meds for a Chikugunya disease that’s all over Hyderabad. I had some last night and this morning. It looks like tiny naphthalene balls and smells like it too. I think it has made me constipated. Like I needed more help. Oh well, I can suffer a little constipation if it means I won’t get some weird mosquito spread disease.