The testy toilet in ADK A

When I lived on campus, we had a toilet in our bathroom that really did not act like toilets are supposed to.  Instead of taking waste down, it would just bring other waste up.  The only saving grace was that it did not overflow.  We happened to notice this in early October, the same weekend one of my room mates was having a friend from home stay the weekend.

We went to the RA's office to see what could happen.  The poor kid was a transfer and was filling in because he was an RA in the Mohawk dorms, and we lived in Adirondack.  He had never seen anything like it, and with it being 8PM on a Friday, he really could not contact anyone to deal with our situation.  He did leave a note for the RD to see if something could be done Monday.  (Although he did not fix our problem, it did not stop the four of us girls fighting each other to look out the door peephole because he was quite hot.  What makes it even funnier is he later started to date one of our good friends that lived off campus.)

This is a major problem on SUNYIT's campus because the way the dorms are set up, the four people share the bathroom in the suite.   In the  mean time, we had to walk to the Adirondack lounge to use the bathroom there.  So, since our one and only toilet was not the best, we sort of had to warn people about the testy toilet.  I created this sign, with help from my Dominican room mate, so that we would have a nice warning for our friends, whether they speak English or Spanish.

They never actually fixed the problem.  It would work fine for a while, but then one fateful day we would get a nice surprise.  Since I moved off campus after that year, and my room mates moved to different suites, I'm not even sure if they actually did fix the problem.  I should see who lives there now and offer them the sign if the toilet is still giving people problems.