My brush went swimming, and I'm an idiot
A few months ago, I found a dead rat or mouse in my toilet. Ever since then, I've been worried about finding another one. Well, a few days ago, I thought I found a squirrel. That was based on a quick look at the "tail" before I flushed the toilet. (Yes, the rat/mouse got flushed too). Naturally, I was worried about how the squirrel might have gotten into the apt, so I did a pretty careful inspection of the basement, my apt itself, all the windows, the door, etc.
So today I was going to shave, and I noticed that my brush was not in it's holder. I looked at where I take my SOTD photos and around the bathroom and couldn't find it. Then it dawned on me. My brush must have, somehow, fallen out of it's stand (which is on a cabinet at about eye level next to the toilet) and into the toilet. I confused it for a squirrel's tail (as it had fallen handle down), and flushed my $130 Thater Finest down the toilet.
My first thought was "wow, I'm such an idiot!" But, now that I think about it, I'm not so sure I would want to use a shaving brush that's fallen into the toilet on my face. Don't get me wrong, I'm not made of money and I do keep my toilet clean, but still.
The only thing I wonder now is how in the heck did the brush get into the toilet. I've been the only one in my apt, there is very little chance that I accidentally knocked it into the toilet because it's up high, on a shelf, and knocking it off would have also knocked over a few bottles of AS and related items. So now I'm kind of worried that maybe there was some critter that yanked it off or something... From now on, the brush will be going into a closed cabinet.