What´s in Your Toilet?

Yesterday, in ours, was a rat.

My soon-to-be ex-bathroommate Elena (she´s returning to Yale in a week) opened the lid and saw what she believed to be a snake flopping about in the water. She ran and fetched one of the maids, who, in lifting the seat, discovered that the snake was the tail of a very wet rat trying not to drown. Elena retreated to her room while the maid used our toilet brush to jerry the rat.

With the water shut off during the day, it seems that rats are able to wander around the mostly empty pipes. That said, by all accounts it is unusual to have one appear in your toilet.

We haven´t decided yet whether to leave the lid up or down after usage. Leaving it down eliminates the possibility that a rat might succeed in hefting himself out of the toilet, and onto the floor. That said, lifting the lid requires a bravery that we´re not sure we possess.

In other news, Hurricane Dean went far, far north of us. We´re getting a good soaking, nothing more.