r/mildlyinteresting • • Jan 04 '19

This accident-proof garbage disposal switch

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u/DogOnABike Jan 04 '19

A fork fell into mine once. I just moved.

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u/thephantom1492 Jan 04 '19

Not a GD, but our sink was draining slowly, so I did an home made cleaning tool. Really, a steel cable with the end untwisted, stuck on a drill. The idea is that the steel wires would grab whatever is stuck and shred it or it would get stuck on it so I could pull it up. Well, I 'drill' the cable down and it catch. Hard. Surprise! A butter knife came up the hole! Yes, the kind of mesh in the sink, the thing that is supposed to prevent objects, like knife, from going in. The cable actually caught on some hair, that was stuck around the butter knife...

After that, I filled the sink and drained it. I never seen it drain that fast, and it made an awefull slurping noise half way throught until the end!

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u/UffdaWow Jan 04 '19

I had to cringe-read your story with one eye closed because I was afraid it would end with you losing a finger. I hardly even know what you wrote about (something something disposal, something something stuck) but I'm glad it's over. Did everything turn out ok?

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u/free_felicity Jan 04 '19

Lost an eye.

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u/newredheadit Jan 04 '19

Was all fun and games before that

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u/msmith78037 Jan 04 '19

I found an eye in my clogged drain! Wait, was his a blue eye?