TIFU by flushing a large amount of paper towel down my toilet

so i ran out of toilet paper, but nature called, and i had no choice but to improvise. i found a roll of paper towels and thought, “eh, close enough.” did my business, wiped up, and instead of throwing them in the trash like a normal person, i thought, “toilets are strong, it’ll handle this.” flushed it all down, no hesitation. toilet seemed fine, so i went about my day like nothing happened.

fast forward a few hours, i come home, open the door, and immediately get hit with a smell so violent i thought something died. i step inside, and that’s when i hear it—this faint dripping sound coming from the basement. i go down the stairs, and boom. there it is. a full-blown biohazard scene. my toilet had apparently choked on all that paper towel and decided to take revenge by overflowing for hours.

my entire basement floor? covered in a swampy mixture of piss, shit, and shredded paper towel bits. my socks? instantly soaked in what i can only describe as satan’s soup. and the worst part? the plumbing guy i called took one look, gagged, and said, “yeah man, this is bad.”

TL;DR: used paper towels to wipe, flushed them like an idiot, came home to my basement flooded with piss and shit. now my house smells like a sewage plant and my dignity is gone.