So today I got up to go to the bathroom. Get a shower, shave, brush my teeth, you know, the whole hygiene thing. and when I step into the bathroom, my foot goes "splash!"

YOu see, there was about an inch of water on my bathroom floor. Now i thought our toilet had might have leaked or something, as not ten minute ago I had used the bathroom. flushed the toilet again to see if it would leak, but nothing happened. so I figured I'd just clean up the mess and then notify maintenance.

No sooner had I finished sopping up all that water did there come a knock at my door. I opened it, and by jove it was maintenance. they asked me if I had any water problems and I said "as a matter of fact yes" and explained it to him.

He told me that it wasn't my toilet, but the toilet ABOVE me. apparently a student's parent had clogged the toilet in their apartment. and rather than call for maintenance, they kept flushing. and flushing, and flushing.

I live on the fourth floor. there is only one floor above me. I was told the water damage had made it's way all the way to the first floor.

Apartment life is usually pretty easy, but sometimes it's the idiots in the building with you who screw things up.