Train went down the toilet

I just got home from a long day at work to find the toilet not working. The wife said the 2 year old was playing with his trains and she heard the toilet flush. I was afraid that if it was a train, I didn’t want it clogging up the entire sewer system, so I had to remove the whole toilet to the outside and run a stiff wire through it.
Sure enough it was one of his Thomas the trains.
My daughter said its all my fault because I got him into trains. baffled:

 

I'd say keep the little tyke away from the Z scale stuff for a while... :mtongue:

 

I’ll say, I think that might have gone all the way down.laugh:

 

Don't let your wife get you down my wife does not like my hobby either, its not your fault women are form Venus and men are from Mars, I have a two and a half year old and he loves trains although he would not put his trains in the toilet but kids are kids so trains to them are still toys. I don't force him to like trains by going to the toy store and buying a train, he likes them on his own and if he does not like trains that's fine with me also. What I'm trying to say is that I don't force him to like anything, if he does then I just go with the flow. So you have done nothing wrong.

 

At least it's not one of your Katos lodged in your plumbing system! :ru-shocked:

 

Hmmm.

I think Mehano's float.

 

Oh I don’t force him. I did buy him his own train so that he will leave mine alone, but I think he knows the difference. This is the first time he ever threw anything down the toilet and at first I didn’t believe it.

Last night we played a little game were I backed up a Kato SD-70 down a siding onto a blue Kato Rerailer clipped on to a straight section of track. As soon as it jumped up onto the rerailer, I would put it into forward and ask him to give it a little push and I got to say he loved it. There were a few times that I went a little too fast and the SD-70 ran right up over the reailer. Before I could grab it, he already had and was gently setting it into the rerailer. He did pretty good for a two year old. By the time he was ready for bed he was grabbing it and setting it right on the track like a pro without any help from the blue rerailer.

I think that he might think he’s graduated to the big boy stuff and he doesn’t need those toy trains anymore.

 

Maybe you should make him a DRY tunnel ? Bob C.

 

Here's a classic....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtPgEjETeVw

Fast forward to about 1:25...

 

Kids will be kids. She came back with a quick answer.

 

One of my kids did the stuffed toy down the commode. That video says it all, it is just curiosity. Healthy thought.

 

Maybe because it's the first mechanical thingy a child can control all on his own. Its down at his level, you push that lever and WHOOSH magic begins. Then it refills! Wow!

:tb-tongue:

 

When my daughter was younger, I noticed that things weren't going down properly, and the usual remedies didn't help. I asked her if she had put anything down there, and she said "a top." So, I sent both wife and daughter out shopping, bought a new wax donut and proceeded to dismantle what by this time was a messy and smelly commode.

When I finally retrieved the offending item, it was the top to a pot from her little cooking set, exactly the diameter of the pipe inside.

It had a happy face on it.

 

I'm sure by that time it was the only happy face in the room...

 

Oh no, at least mine was clear. I don’t know what I would have done if it weren’t.arghh:
The happy face is just too funny.

 

The accepted answer is that kids are highly praised by their parents for using the toilet as positive reinforcement. Combine that with the natural uninhibited curiosity of a child and you know the rest.

 

Now there's the definition of irony.:we-wink:

 

Let's just say this is not the first nor will be the last toddler to flush toys or other objects down the drain. If you ask your parents, you might have also done this too...

:tb-rolleyes: :tb-rolleyes: :tb-rolleyes: :tb-rolleyes:​

 

Yep.

Just last night my NINE year old! (yes NINE), had a little problem in the bathroom.
We have those Wipes now that are slightly moistened in addition to plain old bathroom tissue. I recommend them...

Anyway, she decided to use an entire box.
When she flushed, things started to back up.
Her solution was to grab a bath towel, then reach into the toilet and pick out all those wipes in a vain attempt to remove the clog, then put what she picked out on the bath towel.

So I ended up with a stopped up toilet, a wasted box of Wipes, a ruined bath towel, a floor full of mess and a daugther who needed another shower.... did I mention she is NINE!?!?

Kids are fun!