Toilet

  When Ted Turner was visiting the Soviet Union, he was staying at a hotel in Moscow.  He was very worried about listening devices in his room.  Upon checking in, he found a bump under the rug in his room and figured it was a device, so he raised up the rug to find a metal plate screwed to the floor.  He got a knife and unscrewed it.  He heard a crash from the room below.  It turned out that the metal plate held the light fixture to the ceiling of the other room.

 I told that story, because of something that happened to me while staying at Ravenwood Apartments in Forest Acres.  One night, my toilet overflowed in the bathroom.  I was trying to sop up the water with towels, when I heard a knock on my door.  It was the apartment manager.  She had gotten a call from the people who lived below me.  The light fixture in their bathroom was filling up with water and was about to burst.  I had no idea that the water from my toilet had seeped through the tiles of my bathroom and into their light fixture.  I learned that night that my tiles shared a ceiling with their apartment.  I apologized profusely to my neighbors, and we got everything fixed.  

 I can't say they were as gracious as me.  I had to pay for a new bulb for them.  I suppose it could have been much worse, like my toilet crashing through the tile into their bathroom.  Watch The Three Stooges episode about them being plumbers.  You will get the idea.  Thankfully, my apartment now only has one floor, and the tile doesn't leak.