Unsolved Mysteries

The house we live in has a few mysteries that often baffle me. When we first moved in, there were hundreds of bugs and spiders everywhere. The mystery: where do they all come from and how are they marching right into my house? Another mystery, why would my dishwasher just suddenly start overflowing suds in the middle of a cycle? Why did two toilets in our house decide [on the same day] to run forever every time you flush? I don't know the answers to these questions.

The most current and possibly most disturbing mystery has been a very strong pee smell that is coming from our bathroom. At first I thought this was the work of a tired night urinater. So I complained about it for a day or two then I got down on my hands and knees and scrubbed the toilet and surrounding floor area. That should do it... or so I thought. More pee smells. I got out the big guns. I took Comet to the bathtub, the toilet (again) and the sink, then mopped the floor. More pee smells. I took out the rugs and washed them just in case the tired night urinater got that distracted. More pee smells! The last thing left was the shower curtains. I unhooked the 100s of holders and washed them too. At last, that seemed to have done it. Until next morning I woke up and smelled that foul odor again. I seriously thought I was going crazy, maybe I was having an extended stroke and the only symptom was a constant pee smell in the mind. I thought this for a day until my sister came over and commented on that nasty pee smell. After using the scientific method, I narrowed down a constant variable to this smell. It typically follows the use of the shower and lasts many hours after. So, with this in mind, I had two possible explanations. There is a ghost who inhabits my bathroom that pees all over the place when he hears the shower running (I hope he isn't looking at me when I bathe). Or the second, which is that instead of "fresh" water in the shower, there has been a cross in the sewer lines and we have really been washing ourselves with crappy piss water. This seems to be the only logical explanation. I better stop brushing my teeth in the shower and rinsing my mouth (:

I wonder if we have to put this on the seller disclaimers when we put our house on the market - "stinky pee smell upstairs".

We will now be taking requests for anyone who would like to stay with us and use our shower.