Water, water everywhere.

Once upon a time there was a father left to take care of two young lads while their mother got her hair cut. The father was making an earnest attempt to get the boys dressed, cleaned up, and out the door for their dinner plans with their mother. The older boy -- a spirited 3-year-old -- was taking his final restroom stop before heading out the door. Since it was taking longer than usual, the father checked on the son, only to discover that an entire roll of toilet paper had mysteriously worked its way into the toilet. The father, also an expert plumber, got the plunger to assist with the situation. Thinking the issue was resolved, Plumber Pops flushed the toilet ... only to have the water spewing over the toilet bowl onto the bathroom floor. Water, water everywhere.

The father (along with the son's feeble attempts to help) began sopping up the water with multiple towels as quickly as possible. In the midst of the clean-up efforts, the smoke alarm began to resonate a shrill piercing sound throughout the house. This then activated the shrill piercing cry of the younger 6-month-old son. Upon further investigation, there was no smoke causing the alarm to sound, so the father placed Priority 1 on cleaning up the overflow and Priority 2 on turning off the smoke alarm. (The father also figured that Priority 3 of calming the baby would be accomplished when Priority 2 was resolved.) With Step 1 complete, the father moved on to taking down the smoke alarm from the vaulted ceiling with a ladder (a rake was another tool used but it proved to be unsuccessful). A few peaceful seconds passed, but then a 2nd smoke alarm started its all too familiar sound downstairs! The father raced downstairs to find water dripping through the AC vents from the toilet incident. The smoke detector was hooked to the main wiring in the house that had gotten wet and set both of them off. Water, water everywhere.

The father then proceeded to call the mother starting off the conversation with, "Someday this is something we will laugh about..."