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Go into your bathroom and stare at the toilet real hard. Then go to your mailbox. If there’s a bill saying “sewer service,” then you are connected to all your neighbors by a large icky pipe.
Try not to think about it.
And no, they sJ#^ do not count ^*' or mea- ^
sure what
you put in the
\ , pipes! It is calculated
by how much
water you buy. They
actually do get you coming
and going.
Don’t dwell on this either.
Plumbing depends on one inviolable principle: gravity. With all the microchips, polymer blends, and multi-purpose wiring in your house, you are still depending on the pull of the spinning earth to take away your wastes.
Block that process with a wayward Tic-Tac box or arteriosclerosis of the pipes, and what should go down will surely come back up.
One day last year I heard my daughter yell “Ee-yew!” And my education began.
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