Well, I hope you washed your hands.
I bought a set of rods about 4 years ago after having to call out Maurice the Poo Man twice in a month to unblock the sewer pipe which runs down my garden but is shared by three houses.
I quite like Maurice, but flat fee of £100 grates when he gets it done in 10 minutes. He did spend about an hour in my kitchen afterwards playing me his favorite tracks by the Blue Man Band. Even popped out to his van to get his Bluetooth speaker. Maurice is a very large man who looks exactly like Alex Paterson from the Orb...
...only much fatter.
Last time he came I had to leave him to it to go and walk the kids back from primary school. He was finishing up and I told him I'd be 5 minutes and would pop over to the post office to get his cash. He said not to worry as it would take him 10 minutes to pack up and he'd still be there.
I got back in about 6 minutes and to my surprise he was gone, with no sign that he had even been there as all his kit was gone and he'd replaced the patio slabs over the manhole by our patio doors and everything.
I gave it 15 minutes and he still hadn't come back so I phoned him. Turns out he'd started packing up and had an urgent need for the toilet, so had packed up in about 60 seconds and driven 2 miles over the hill to Sainsbury's to use their toilet and had only just made it in time.
I said he should have just dropped his trousers and done it straight down into the manhole and cut out the middleman. His reply?
"Yes, but people get upset when you do."