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I’m still pretty mad at the whole ordeal. My husband’s coworker and his wife are both mad at us, and think I humiliated her but I think her lack of common sense is what did it.
My husband and I recently hosted a cookout at our house for his coworkers, he gets along pretty well with most of them and enjoys hosting. Coworker’s wife Julia goes to the hallway bathroom, comes back. I end up going after her, and notice the toilet is clogged and starting to overflow. Something large and white is stuck, I use the plunger to unclog it and lo and behold, a very large bloody maxi pad.
Julia was the last person to use the bathroom, so I came out and asked her if she tried to flush a pad down the toilet. She got embarrassed and said yes, and I told her she needed to go clean up the mess she made. There was water all over the floor, with particles of her pad and blood everywhere. I asked her if no one ever taught her not to flush a pad, we have a septic tank and they cost thousands to repair. You don’t flush pads, especially not the extra large ones. It’s not like she tried to flush a panty liner or something.
Julia cried and her husband yelled at me, but who does that? Especially at someone else’s house? Husbands two female coworkers came to my defense, and pretty much said it was stupid of her to do that. Julia half a**ed cleaning up her mess, and her and her husband quickly left. All of their coworkers think Julia shouldn’t have done that, but my husband and his coworker are having a whole feud about it.
Am I A Jerk for calling out my husband’s coworker’s wife for trying to flush a maxi pad down our toilet?
Edit: We have a septic tank. Septic tank repairs here can easily go for around 10,000$. Julia has a septic tank. Julia knows better. When I asked if she would flush a pad in her own home she said no. Julia said she did it because there was no trash can in there, and she didn’t want to walk her pad to a different trash can. The trashcan from that bathroom was outside being washed because a different coworker got vomit on it. I dont think saving her some embarrassment would be worth paying thousands of dollars to repair. Also, she saw that the toilet was clogged and decided to walk off and leave it for someone else.
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