I could have taken pictures, but didn't.

Well the garbage disposal clogged today. It has done it before, and Gweener was around to take all the pipes off to de-clog it... today, however, he was NOT.

I had to "get rid" of some spinach that i purchased but did not get around to eating or freezing. I was pushing small bits of it down the disposal and it was working fine... then the sink began to fill up.

"Crap" I said (more or less), after I had turned the disposal off, and waited to see if the water would go down. It did not go down, so I made my way out to the garage to get the bucket, which lately has been used for this instead of for washing my car, (which is very dirty).

So I had the pleasure of emptying many of the "under-the-kitchen-sink" items and placed the bucket under the pipes, unscrewed the U-joint pipe and worked the other connector thing loose. Green (chlorophyll whoohoo) water rushed out, and I had the pleasure of digging much of the now-chopped spinach out of the pipe joint before piecing it back together again.

The sink and disposal are now both working, but I feel that the pipes are the reason this issue happens... that and the fact that this disposal is old and probably a cheap piece of crap. Not that it matters MUCH, but it still matters.