A Guatemalan Tale

Having finished his pot of tea, the Fatman looked around the hotel room to figure out what to do with the pound of spent grounds. The thought of dragging his large body down a flight of stairs to dump the grounds outside or in the trash bin seemed the least appealing option. Having forgotten that the plumbing system in the country could not even handle toilet paper, he decided to pour the solid waste into the sink. As he turned on the water expecting to see the water wash the grounds down the sink, he was alarmed to see the water rising immediately.

The Fatman was prepared for most circumstances on the trip. He gained notoriety in San Ignacio for going around town in a headlamp, which was useful when the town lost power for several hours. He was celebrated in town as The Fatman With The Headlamp. But the Fatman was not prepared for a plumbing emergency. The best he could do was to grab a twig off a tree from the balcony. (Anything but drag his large girth down the stairs.) He tried jamming the twig down the pipe, but to no avail. Unable to clean up the mess he had made, the Fatman called hotel maintenance and made a hasty exit to the shuttle van that would take him out of the country.