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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/glopthrowawayaccount on 2025-06-02 15:30:04+00:00.

I was cleaning, we had a container of psyllium powder on the counter for years. I didn’t like it because it basically turned to sludge at the bottom of a mug and sitting water above it when you mixed it and I would end up eating sludge with a spoon. Psyllium powder is the active ingredient in Metamucil. I didn’t think anything of it and poured it down the drain and ran the insinkerator to make it drain quicker. Then it slowed. Then it stopped.

I looked it up and the internet said to clean the p trap. I took everything from under the counter, put a bucket under the drain, and loosened the p trap. It dumped gallons, gallons of food waste bilge water onto me after the bucket overflowed. I ran to get towels but there was nothing to do about it since the pipe was unscrewed and wouldn’t screw in fast enough. A dozen towels and water covering everything I took from under the sink and me, I tried to remove the pipe. The insinkerator came undone as well. I looked in the p trap, it’s essentially Gack blocking the entire pipe. I fish it out with my fingers. I put the slime in a bag. I run the insinkerator in the shower to be sure it is empty of slime. I check to see if the slime got beyond the p trap to the wall. It did.

I removed the insert pipe and sludge that has been stuck between the pipe in the wall and the insert section is exposed to air, black sink junk that has not seen air in years or more. It smells like poop. I smell like poop. I am covered in sink water and poop slime. I roll up heavy cardboard and insert it in the pipe and turn it to scoop out the poop slime. I do it as many times as I can and eventually don’t get slime but the pipe turns at the wall a foot and a half from where I put the cardboard in, if the slime is in there I can’t do anything. I reassemble it, lightly fit everything, put the bucket in case of leaking connections, run insanely hot water in the insinkerator. It drains. Until it doesn’t. I wipe myself off so when I plug the insinkerator in poop slime doesn’t electrocute me. Run the insinkerator, it spins for thirty seconds, the water drains. Hopefully it doesn’t clog.

I spend an hour cleaning up the water, washing off everything that got refuse water on it, and get in the shower to scrub the poop smell of it. It takes forever. Though, it was put into a pipe full of very old poop sludge and came out poop slime, apparently Metamucil does what it is supposed to.

TL;DR: I put the active ingredient of Metamucil in a drain and had to scoop rancid sludge from various pipes for several hours.