Peace, Love, and Lutefisk: Adventures i Norge

Behold, the power of Plumbo!

This evening Stian and I took on the pipes, and we won. For the past week or so the drain in our man bathroom has become plugged up with man hair. Sharing a shower with two other guys with thick dark hair has taken its toll on the pipes and today when I showered and the bathroom flooded with water, bringing with it floating hairballs and a submarine-like packet of chewing tobacco (called snus in Norwegian), I decided it was time to end the madness.

Stian and I went to Euro Spar and bought the miracle acid: PLUMBO! Plumbo is the Norwegian equivalent of Drain-O and comes as a blue powder that when added with water can, according to the package, "cause serious damage to aluminum." Stian asked jokingly if we needed any protective material before we used it, but little did we know that we actually did.

We walked in to the bathroom confidently with our half liter of boiling water to combine with the bottle of Plumbo. We dumped the bottle of plumbo into the drain and it started smoking in an immediate explosion of caustic power. As we poured the water in the drain, the room was suddenly filled with the smell of burning hair that we could literally taste. We were lucky to escape with our lives. The drain bubbled over, filling our floor with a grimy layer of liquified hair.



All we could do was shut the door and wait for the Plumbo to do its work. Upon seeing the effective results, Stian decided that we will now use Plumbo for everything. Instead of taking the trash out, we'll just dump on the Plumbo and let it do its work. The magic of man's conquest over nature. We'll see how long it takes for our man hair to again necessitate the fun of Plumbo!