She Blacked Out and Woke Up to a Spotless Toilet. Two Theories. Neither Is Comforting.

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A woman came home, got blackout drunk, and woke up to find her toilet spotlessly clean — scrubbed, gleaming, and fitted with a freshly applied toilet rim cleaner block. She had zero memory of any of it.

That left her with exactly two possibilities: someone had broken into her apartment and silently cleaned her bathroom without taking anything, or her completely hammered self had decided the toilet needed attention right then. She posted about it as a "scary story," and the response from people who've woken up to suspiciously clean homes after heavy drinking nights was immediate and overwhelming.

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Can I tell you a scary story? I just used my toilet — at home — and it was sparkling clean for some reason. A fresh toilet rim cleaner block had even been applied. So either someone broke in and cleaned my bathroom without permission, or blackout-me did it. Those are the only two options.

怖い話ししていい？今トイレしたのよ、家でね何故かトイレがピカピカに掃除されててトイレスタンプまで押してあったな家に誰かが勝手に出入りして勝手に掃除したか、泥酔した私がやったかの究極の2択だ

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A burglar or a blackout…

泥棒か泥酔か…

Obviously it was the toilet fairy

普通にトイレの妖精だろ

Maybe the Toilet God was just doing a bit of self-care. (“Toilet God” — 「トイレの神様」— refers to a 2010 Japanese ballad about a grandmother who told her granddaughter that a beautiful god lives in every toilet, and that keeping it clean will make you beautiful too. The song became a huge hit and turned toilet cleaning into something almost spiritual for a generation of Japanese people.)

トイレの神さまのセルフケアの可能性

There are definitely times when I wake up after drinking and the whole apartment is inexplicably spotless…

飲んだ翌日に家の中が意味不明なくらい綺麗なときある…

Same thing happened to me — woke up with only the haziest memory of drinking, and the room was clean, the toilet was organized, and the toilet paper basket had been fully restocked

あたしも酒飲んだ記憶だけ残して起きたら部屋も綺麗になっててトイレも整理整頓されててカゴにペーパーの補充までしてた

Same thing happened to me when I was living alone. Then it happened again after I moved to a new place. Both times I’d been drinking the night before

私も1人暮らしの頃同じことがあった、引っ越し先でもまたあった、どちらも前日は飲んで帰ってきていた

Option ③: A drunk someone else

『③泥酔した誰か』

Hold on. There is one more possibility. Specifically: the intruder and blackout-you ran into each other, you got mad, and you made them clean the toilet as punishment

ちょっと待ってくださいもうひとつの「可能性」がありますつまり、勝手に入っていた誰かと泥酔したあなたが鉢合わせて、怒ったあなたはその誰かにトイレ掃除をさせた

Probably just one option lol

1択ですねたぶんｗ

This is giving me flashbacks to finding out blackout-me cleaned up my own vomit,,,

泥酔してるのにちゃんとゲロ掃除してる自分を見てるみたいだ、、、

I wish I got drunk like this. The only thing I’m capable of is scattering salted kelp everywhere. (Salted kelp — 塩昆布 — is a popular Japanese snack of dried seaweed seasoned with soy sauce and salt. Apparently a deeply chaotic snack to be eating while intoxicated.)

わたしもこう言う酔っ払い方したかった。塩昆布撒き散らす酔い方しかできない。

My take

Maybe when you're that far gone, some quietly responsible part of you just wakes up and gets to work. Handy, I suppose — though ideally you'd hold onto the memory of your own hard work. Either way, probably best not to find out.

#Funny #Culture

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