Just Here To Install Your Toilet, Ma’am

Judy McLain
5 min readApr 24, 2018

In February 2015 I decided to replace a toilet in my home. I used one of those internet “find a handy-man” services and chose the company I used based on their reviews. I think the day of service was two days after I clicked on the site and lined things up. The day the man came to install I was alone in my house.

Things were jovial. He was friendly. He was polite. The bathroom where the toilet was being installed is small and he was a big guy and I recall being concerned for him having to work in such a small place. I told him where to leave the old toilet and…

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Judy McLain

Shit Creek survivor. Storyteller. Feminist liberal. Southern without the accent. Chihuahuaist.