The water vanished. The clog surrendered. A final, satisfied sigh echoed from the drain.
Then the water level began to rise.
He took his position, sighed the sigh of a man who has just subtracted $4,000 from a column that needed to add $12,000, and began to relieve himself. The stream was steady, unremarkable. For ten blissful seconds, all was right with the world.
There are two kinds of men in this world: those who have faced the urinal clog, and those who will.