My bathroom sink is clogged. This is annoying to me. I have gone through two bottles of dangerous chemicals, and all they have done is make the problem worse. Come to think of, it I have used three bottles of the Drano and it's competitors, but the last two only seemed to make the problem worse. They must have broken apart the junk in the top of the pipes only to have all that hair and gunk lodge further down at a bigger, stronger clot. I am afraid to put any more chemicals, lest I end up melting the pipes.

It is time for the Snake!

For those of you lucky to never have one used on your plumbing, the snake works pretty much like the things that are used to clean flutes and saxophones, except that they are much longer and more bristly. I actually tried to rig up my own snake, as I happen to have a flute cleaner in my toolbox (God knows how that got in there). I couldn't get it far enough in there to hit the clog, and I almost got it caught in the S-curve when i pulled it out—that would have been hard to explain.

I'll leave it to the experts this time. My landlord lives on the first floor, so I'll have her sort it out. She is probably on a first name basis with the local plumber. I would actually love to have a Snake, as I am bound to have this problem again. If I was still living at my old place, which had no landlord per se, I would be going to the pluming store this afternoon.

Way back in the day when I lived in Texas, they had to replace my pipes in my front yard. They tore up my entire driveway with a backhoe when they swapped out the clogged PVC pipes. It was pretty drastic. Today's clog is nothing compared to that, knock on wood.

I just want my sink back so I do not have to shave out of kitchen pots any more.