Paul and the Toilet

It was a mild winter day. Cold, but not cold enough to stop Timothy's mom from undertaking the task of assembling her team of daughters and searching the woods for a small rusted stake that indicated the property line. In the meanwhile Timothy, who was in the house diligently studying his math, heard the grating of porcelain on porcelain and then a crash. For a split second there was silence. The next thing he knew Paul, who had been playing with his legos and roaming the house up until this point, shot out of the bathroom like Luke escaping the exploding Death Star and there was a loud roar as if a small jet was taking off. Timothy rushed into the bathroom to find it was already starting to flood. As is happened Paul had just gone to the bathroom and found that the toilet would not flush after he had used it. It had been having problems recently and Paul had seen his mom take the back off of it and fix something in the mysterious black of the back of the toilet. Half moved by the necessity to fix the toilet and half motivated by a curiosity to know what was in the back of the toilet, Paul slid the heavy cover off of the back of the toilet, not thinking ahead far enough to know what he was going to do with it. With a crash it fell to the floor conveniently shearing off the pipe that brought water into the toilet at the same time. As soon as it fell Paul panicked and ran and hid as Timothy rushed into the bathroom. After he had established that the bathroom was very wet, getting more wet by the second, and that the valve had been sheared off the wall along with the pipe he went out and yelled for his mom not knowing what else to do. His mom got there a minute or two later. She then quickly assessed the situation and immediately went to the breaker panel and and flipped all of the breakers, knowing that one of them would shut off the water pump. Within 30 seconds the water had completely subsided and we began to clean up and repair the damage. Needless to say their dad, who happened to be in Sudan for a week was not thrilled to find out that his recently redone bathroom was soaked, along with insulation that had just been put up under the house.