# How I took down part of a cruise ship’s plumbing system

My family and I were on vacation on a cruise around Europe (mostly Italy, a bit of France and Spain), and I’m not the most comfortable about using random toilets. I had some stuff stored up.

I finally let it loose in our room’s toilet. There was enough that it needed two flushes to get both of these two behemoths down.

A few hours later my mom was the next person to use our toilet. She flushed while she was going, and the next thing she knew, the water had risen up to her bum. She promptly leapt off the toilet and we called maintenance.

The toilet pipes are built into the outer wall of the rooms, and we felt moisture on the hall carpet. We also noticed this on the rooms below ours on consecutive floors (the pipes must go vertically through the ship).

So yeah, that’s how I took down a section of the Norwegian Epic’s plumbing system.