Kot w rurze

This is an old Polish copypasta from 2010(?) about a middle-aged guy who had to go through great lengths to save his wife’s cat that got stuck in the sewer pipe.
Posiadam. Wrรณฤ. Moja ลผona posiada kota, rasy kotka, rasy czarnej, rasy ze schroniska, rasy maลe kociฤ. Guzik by mnie to obchodziลo gdyby nie fakt, ลผe jest maลe, ลผe chodzi to to bez przerwy za mnฤ
i trzeszczy - a to na rฤce, a to ลผreฤ, a to trzeszczy dla samego trzeszczenia, zupeลnie jak jej pani. Generalnie pogลaskaฤ mogฤ, kopnฤ
ฤ jakฤ
ล rzecz, ktรณra leลผy na ziemi ลผeby kot za niฤ
biegaล teลผ, niech chowa siฤ zdrowo do czasu, aลผ raz zapomnฤ zamknฤ
ฤ terrarium i zajmie siฤ nim mรณj wฤ
ลผ, reszta to nie mรณj problem. Ale do czasu. Staje siฤ to moim problemem gdy moja wspรณลmaลลผonka udaje siฤ w celach sลuลผbowych gdzieล tam na ileล tam. I spada na mnie karmienie, wyprowadzanie i sprzฤ
tanie po tym caลym taลatajstwie. Jako ลผe to zawsze lekko olewam i robiฤ wszystko w ostatni dzieล przed powrotem maลลผonki nie nastrฤcza mi to wiele problemรณw.
Kot jest od niedawna i od niedawna jest nowy zwyczaj - niezamykania ลazienki, gdyลผ w niej znajduje siฤ urzฤ
dzenie zwane potocznie kuwetฤ
, do ktรณrego kot robi to samo co ja w toalecie, czyli wchodzi i moลผe spokojnie pomyลleฤ. Mnie jednak uczono caลe ลผycie zamykaฤ te cholerne drzwi do ลazienki za sobฤ
, wiฤc stale ลผona mi trzeszczaลa, ลผe kot tam nie moลผe wejลฤ i โmyลleฤโ. Ja jestem stary i siฤ nie nauczฤ, poza tym mieszkam tu dลuลผej niลผ ten kot, sam dom stawiaลem, moje drzwi, mรณj kibel, wypierdalaฤ wiฤc. I postawiลem na swoim. Od jakiegoล czasu kot chodzi do toalety razem ze mnฤ
. Jak nie ma maลลผonki to musi zazwyczaj czyhaฤ na mnie albo miauczeฤ coby przypomnieฤ, ลผe trzeba mu ลazienkฤ otworzyฤ, bo jak jest ลผona to ona ma juลผ w biosie zaprogramowane - ja wychodzฤ i zamykam, ona idzie i otwiera, ลผeby kot mรณgล wejลฤ - taka technologia po prostu. Czasem kot skacze na klamkฤ, ale ma jeszcze zbyt maลฤ
wypornoลฤ i zwisa na niej bezradnie. Jednak jak moja ลผona bฤdzie nadal go tak karmiฤ- to w szybkim tempie bฤdzie za kaลผdym razem klamkฤ upierdalaล - a wtedy wiadomo - wฤ
ลผ.
Dobrze wiฤc, uporzฤ
dkujฤ: ลผona - delegacja, ja - praca. Wracam, wchodzฤ do domu, kot przy drzwiach do ลazienki skwierczy, bo jak wychodziลem to zamknฤ
ลem za sobฤ
. Ok, kotku mnie siฤ teลผ chce. Idziemy razem - ja toaletka, okienko uchylam, papierosik (bo ลผona bฤdzie za trzy dni - wiฤc spokojnie wywietrzฤ) kotek swoje, ja przez okienko spoglฤ
dam, jest cudnie. Kotek wskakuje na kaloryfer, na parapecik i patrzymy razem przez okno. No cudnie. Kot skoลczyล dawno, ja teraz, pet do muszli, spuszczam wodฤ, a ten maลy skurwiel jak nie ลmignie i sru za tym petem z tego parapetu i do kibla. Zakrฤciลo nim dwa razy i kota nie ma. Nawet nie zdฤ
ลผyล miauknฤ
ฤ. No ja pierdolฤ. Nie ni ch*ja to niemoลผliwe jest. Przecieลผ nawet taki maลy kot jest ku*wa za duลผy, ลผeby przejลฤ tym syfonem. Ale sลyszฤ tylko pizdut - oลผ ku*wa, no to nie mogลo mi siฤ zdawaฤ - coล ciฤลผkiego poszลo w pion. Ku*wa, wszyscy ลwiฤci w trรณjcy jedyny Boลผe, ukazali mi siฤ przed oczami. Kot ku*wa popลynฤ
ล wprost w odmฤty prawego dopลywu krรณlowej polskich rzek.
Lecฤ ku*wa na dรณล do piwnicy, choฤ moลผe powinienem od razu do schroniska, zanim wrรณci moja ลผona - nie ma wafla, znajdฤ jakiegoล maลego czarnego skurwiela z biaลฤ
krawatkฤ
, nie byลo jej kilka dni, moลผe siฤ nie poลapie. Ale ch*j, najpierw do piwnicy - zbiegam po schodach, sลucham - coล drapie w rurze, pion, kawaลek pลaskiej rury - miauczy - jest, ku*wa, ลผyje i nie poleciaล do sieci miejskiej. Nawet jak teraz zdechnie to ch*j, przynajmniej bฤdฤ miaล jego truchลo i powiem, ลผe kojfnฤ
ล z przyczyn naturalnych albo tylko lekko nienaturalnych, bo przecieลผ mi baba nie uwierzy za ch*ja trefla, ลผe kot sam wpadล do kibla. Ale na razie drapie i ลผyje.
Znalazลem taki wziernik, gdzie moลผna zaglฤ
dnฤ
ฤ do tej rury i woลam. Kici, kici! Ni ch*ja, nie przyjdzie, woลam, woลam, a ten ku*wa gลฤ
b zamiast przyjลฤ do mnie to ku*wa chce iลฤ tam skฤ
d przyszedล, czyli do gรณry w pion. Ja go woลam, a on do gรณry drapie. I udrapie, udrapie kilkanaลcie centymetrรณw i zjazd w dรณล. No pojebaลo i mnie, ลผe tu stojฤ i jego (kota) Tak przez pรณล godziny. Prosiลem, woลaลem, bลagaลem, groziลem, wabiลem ลผarciem i ni ch*ja, uparล siฤ i nic tylko rurฤ
do gรณry z powrotem do kibla. Za daleko, ลผeby wลoลผyฤ rฤkฤ, grabie czy cokolwiek. Jedyna metoda - fight fire with fire - ogieล zwalczaj ogniem.
Zatkaลem tฤ rurฤ przy wzierniku deszczuลkami, ktรณrych uลผywam na podpaลkฤ do kominka, ลผeby kot nie popลynฤ
ล juลผ nigdzie dalej i z buta na gรณrฤ do kibla - geberit i woda w dรณล - bombs gone. I bieg do piwnicy. Po drodze sลyszฤ jak siฤ przewala po rurach - podziaลaลo. Wbiegam do piwnicy i ku*wa koniec ลwiata. Nie ma moich deszczuลek - no moลผe z jedna, caลa prowizoryczna tama poszลa w ch*j i kota teลผ nie sลychaฤ juลผ. Ja pierdolฤ. Ku*wa, gdzie ta rura teraz idzie - coล mi ลwitnฤลo, ลผe kanalizacja w ulicy, dom od ulicy ze 30 metrรณw - moลผe nie wszystko stracone i gdzieล siฤ zwierzak zatrzymaล po drodze.
Biegnฤ na ulicฤ, jest studzienka - mam nadziejฤ, ลผe to od mojego domu. Ni cholery jej nie podniosฤ. Ciฤลผka jak szlag i nie ma za co chwyciฤ. Powrรณt do domu i pogrzebacz od kominka, tym moลผe uda siฤ to podwaลผyฤ. Ni cholery - najpierw ugiฤ
ลem, potem zลamaลem ลผelastwo. Myลl! Auto stoi na ulicy - mam pas do holowania, moลผe uda siฤ to szarpnฤ
ฤ. Hak, pas, wsteczny - poszลo, aลผ zakurzyลo. Po jakฤ
cholerฤ takie te wieka robiฤ
ciฤลผkie. Smrรณd jak cholera, ale zลaลผฤ tam - ciemno jak w dupie, rura jest, wyglฤ
da, ลผe idzie od mojego domu. Latarka. Ku*wa, mam w aucie, ch*jowa, ale moลผe starczy. Wลaลผฤ po raz drugi- smrรณd mnie juลผ nie zabije - przywykลem po chwili. Zaglฤ
dam i jest, oczyska mu siฤ tylko ลwiecฤ
. I znรณw ta sama bajka. Kici, kici, kici, a ten maลy skurczybyk spierdziela w drugฤ
stronฤ. No ja pierdolฤ. Szlag mnie trafi. Dลugo tu nie wysiedzฤ, jest zimno, ลmierdzi, a na dodatek ktoล mi zwali tฤ pokrywฤ na ลeb i moje problemy siฤ skoลczฤ
jak nic. Nie chcesz po dobroci, to bฤdzie po zลoลci.
Do domu, po brezent. Wyลoลผyลem dno studzienki, tak by mi nie wpadล gลฤbiej. Zuลผyลem wszystkie taลmy samoprzylepne, plastry, ลผeby nie wpadล do gลรณwnej nitki kanalizacyjnej. Zaglฤ
dam co chwilฤ do rury, ale sลyszฤ tylko miauczenie i nic nie widzฤ. Poszedล gdzieล w pizdu. Jeszcze tylko trรณjkฤ
t, ลผeby nikt siฤ w tฤ otwartฤ
studzienkฤ nie wpierdoliล, bo na ulicy ciemno. Sฤ
siad, ku*wa, ciekawski, widziaลem ลผลoba jak patrzyล przez okno, jak prรณbowaลem pogrzebaczem podnieลฤ wieko. Nie przyszedล pomรณc, a teraz ch*j zลamany stoi i siฤ dopytuje. Co mam mu ku*wa powiedzieฤ? ลปe przepycham kotem kanalizacjฤ? Idลบลผesz w ch*j, pacanie.
Powiedziaลem mu w koลcu, ลผeby poszedล do domu i pozatykaล sobie teลผ wszystkie otwory, bo na poczฤ
tku osiedla byลa awaria i wszystkie ลcieki siฤ wracajฤ
i wybijajฤ
w domach - a ten baran siฤ przestraszyล, poleciaล i przed swoim domem siลuje siฤ z pokrywฤ
. Niech ma za swoje.
Wracajฤ
c do kota - bo menda tam siedzi i nie chce wyjลฤ. Mam wszystko gotowe, wiฤc do domu, jedna wanna, druga wanna, koreczek i napuszczam wodฤ. Papierosik i czekam pod studzienkฤ
, bo nuลผ mu siฤ zmieni i wyjdzie dobrowolnie. Ku*wa, drugi sฤ
siad przyszedล - po piฤciu minutach nastฤpny odmyka wieko, teoria samospeลniajฤ
cej siฤ przepowiedni dziaลa - ku*wa, ludzie to sฤ
barany. Idฤ do domu, obie wanny peลne, ognia - spuszczam wodฤ z wanien i dokลadam dwa spusty z dwรณch spลuczek z domu. Nie ma ch*ja, to go musi wygoniฤ albo utopiฤ.
Lecฤ na ulicฤ, woda wali na brezent aลผ huczy, a tego skurwiela dalej nie wylaลo z kฤ
pielฤ
. Ku*wa maฤ, urwaลo siฤ wszystko w pizdu i popลynฤลo, bo ileลผ to utrzyma tej wody. Brezent, taลmy, plastry, sznurki - w ch*j - jak siฤ to gdzieล przytka, to bฤdฤ miaล przejebane. Znowu do domu po drugi pogrzebacz, bo trzeba zamknฤ
ฤ ten pierdolony dekiel. Wchodzฤ - a ten skurwiel kot tarza siฤ w sypialni po ลรณลผku. No ja pierdolฤ! Jak on ku*wa wyszedล, ktรณrฤdy? Ano ku*wa wziernikiem w piwnicy - zostawiลem otwarty. Ja ku*wa stojฤ i marznฤ a ten gnรณj tarza siฤ w mojej poลcieli. Zajebiฤ. Przerobiฤ na pasztet. I jeszcze z radoลci wลazi na mnie. Ku*wa maฤ. Przynajmniej kuleje.
Straty: zajebane ลazienki, w obu przelaลa siฤ woda z wanien, zajebana piwnica, bo zostawiลem otwarty wziernik i duลผa czฤลฤ wody poleciaลa na piwnicฤ. Poลciel w sypialni do wyjebania, brezent z reklamฤ
firmy - poszedล w ch*j, latarka - w ch*j, pogrzebacz w ch*j. Afera na ulicy jak ch*j.
English version

Credits to u/luigi0pl for doing the translation. Here are a couple of footnotes:
A few things don’t translate cleanly, but the spirit should remain intact.
- The cat “creaks” instead of meows because the Polish verb trzeszczy is genuinely weird and doing a joke
- The “breed:” repetition – applied bureaucratically to non-breeds. The joke is the form, not the content
- “Queen of Polish rivers” is a stock textbook phrase Polish kids learn for the Vistula.
- “I could draw her a diagram and she still wouldn’t [believe me]” is an invented English phrase standing in for “za chuja trefla” โ an absurd card-suit vulgarity that’s basically untranslatable.
Cat in the pipe
I own. Scratch that. My wife owns a cat. Breed: kitten, breed: black, breed: from-the-shelter, breed: tiny little baby cat thing. I wouldn't give a single shit about it if not for the fact that it's small, that the thing follows me around non-stop and creaks at me. Creaks to be picked up, creaks to be fed, creaks just for the sake of creaking, exactly like its lady owner. In general I'm fine, I can pet it, I can kick something on the floor for the cat to chase, may it grow up big and strong, until the day I forget to close the terrarium and my snake takes care of it; the rest isn't my problem. But only up to a point. It becomes my problem when my better half goes on a business trip somewhere for however long. And the feeding, the walking, and cleaning up after the whole riff-raff falls on me. Since I always kind of half-ass it and do everything on the last day before the wife comes back, it doesn't really cause me much trouble.
The cat's a recent addition, and so is a new custom: not closing the bathroom door, because in there sits a device colloquially known as a litter box, in which the cat does the same thing I do in the toilet, i.e. enters and can think in peace. But me, I've been taught my whole life to close those damn bathroom doors behind me, so the wife was constantly creaking at me that the cat can't get in there to "think." I'm old and I won't learn, plus I've lived here longer than this cat, I built the house myself, my doors, my crapper, so fuck off. And I won. For a while now, the cat goes to the toilet with me. When the wife's not around, the cat usually has to lie in wait for me or meow to remind me that the bathroom needs opening, because when the wife's home she's already got it programmed into her BIOS: I leave and close, she walks over and opens, so the cat can go in. That's just the tech. Sometimes the cat jumps onto the door handle, but it still doesn't have enough body mass and just dangles helplessly. Though if my wife keeps feeding it the way she does, soon enough he'll be fucking up the handle every single time in no time flat, and then: the snake.
Alright then, let me lay it out: wife - business trip, me - work. I come back, walk into the house, the cat is creaking by the bathroom door because when I left I closed it behind me. Okay, kitty, I need to go too. We go together, me on the throne, I crack the window open, light up a smoke (because the wife's not back for three days, plenty of time to air it out), kitty does his thing, I look out the window, it's glorious. Kitty hops up on the radiator, onto the window sill, and we look out together. Just glorious. Cat finished a while ago, I'm finishing now, butt into the bowl, flush the water, and this little fucker just bolts, zoom, after that cigarette butt, off the sill and into the crapper. Spun him around twice and the cat is gone. Didn't even have time to meow. Oh for fuck's sake. No, no fucking way, it's impossible. Even a small cat like that is way too damn big to fit through that siphon. But all I hear is a ker-fucking-splunk. Oh fuck, okay, I didn't imagine it, something heavy went down the pipe. Fuck, all the saints in the Holy Trinity, dear God, flashed before my eyes. The cat fucking sailed straight into the depths of the right tributary of the Vistula, queen of Polish rivers.
I fly the fuck down to the basement, though maybe I should go straight to the shelter before my wife gets back. No sweat, I'll find some little black fucker with a white bowtie, she's been gone a few days, maybe she won't figure it out. But fuck it, basement first. I run down the stairs, I listen, something's scratching in the pipe, the stack, a bit of horizontal pipe, meowing, there it is, fuck, alive and didn't get flushed into the city sewer. Even if he croaks now, whatever, at least I'll have the corpse and I can say he died of natural causes, or only slightly unnatural ones, because no fucking way the old lady believes me. I could draw her a diagram and she still wouldn't. But for now he's scratching and alive.
I found this inspection hatch where you can look into the pipe and I call out. Here kitty kitty! No fucking way, he won't come. I call and call, and this fucking moron, instead of coming to me, wants to go back the way he came, i.e. up the vertical pipe. I'm calling him and he's scratching upward. And he claws his way up, ten-something centimeters, and slides back down. So we're both losing our minds, me standing here and him (the cat). Half an hour like that. I begged, I called, I pleaded, I threatened, I lured him with food and nothing, he's set on it, just going back up the pipe to the toilet. Too far to stick a hand in, or a rake, or anything. Only one method: fight fire with fire.
I plugged the pipe at the inspection hatch with the kindling sticks I use to start the fireplace, so the cat couldn't sail off any further, and I booted it back upstairs to the toilet. Slammed the Geberit, water down, bombs gone. And I sprint to the basement. On my way I hear it rumbling through the pipes, it worked. I run into the basement and oh fuck, the world is ending. My kindling sticks are gone, well, maybe one left, the whole jury-rigged thing got blown to shit, and I can't hear the cat anymore either. Oh for fuck's sake. Fuck, where does this pipe go now? Something flickered in my head, the sewer main is in the street, the house is like 30 meters from the street, maybe not all is lost and the critter got stuck somewhere along the way.
I run out to the street, there's a manhole, I hope it's the one for my house. No fucking way I can lift it. Heavy as hell and nothing to grip. Back to the house, fireplace poker, maybe I can pry it up with that. Not a fucking chance, first I bent the iron, then I broke it. Think! Car's parked on the street, I've got a tow strap, maybe I can yank it. Hook, strap, reverse, it ripped open in a cloud of dust. Why the fuck do they make these covers so heavy? Stinks like hell, but I climb down, pitch black, the pipe's there, looks like it runs from my house. Flashlight. Fuck, I've got one in the car, shitty one, but it might do. I climb in for the second time, the stench won't kill me, I've gotten used to it. I peer in and there he is, only his huge glowing eyes staring back at me. And the same story again. Here kitty kitty kitty, and the little bugger bolts the other way. Oh for fuck's sake. I'm gonna lose it. I can't sit down here long, it's cold, it stinks, and on top of that some asshole might drop the cover back on my head and my problems would be over just like that. If you won't do it the nice way, we'll do it the nasty way.
Back to the house, get the tarp. I lined the bottom of the manhole so he wouldn't drop in deeper. Used up all my packing tape, duct tape, so he couldn't fall into the main sewer line. I peek into the pipe every few minutes, but I only hear meowing and can't see a damn thing. He went off somewhere into the abyss. Just need a warning triangle so nobody falls into this open manhole, because the street is dark. The neighbor, fuck, nosy rubbernecking fucker, I saw him watching through the window while I was trying to pry the cover up with the poker. Didn't come to help, and now this clueless prick is standing there asking questions. What am I supposed to fucking tell him? That I'm rodding the sewer with a cat? Fuck off, dumbass. I finally told him to go home and plug up all his openings too, because there was a breakdown at the start of the neighborhood and all the sewage is backing up and flooding into people's houses, and the dumb sheep got scared, ran off, and is now in front of his own house wrestling with his manhole cover. Serves him right.
Back to the cat, because the bastard's sitting in there and won't come out. I've got everything ready, so back into the house, bathtub one, bathtub two, plug them, run the water. A cigarette, and I wait by the manhole, just in case he changes his mind and comes out voluntarily. Fuck, second neighbor comes over, five minutes later another one's prying his lid open, self-fulfilling prophecy in action, fuck, people are sheep. I go back in the house, both tubs full, fire, I pull the plugs in both tubs and add two flushes from two toilets in the house. There's no fucking way, it's gotta either chase him out or drown him.
I run out to the street, water blasting onto the tarp loud enough to roar, and that fucker still hasn't been washed out with the bath water. Holy fuck, the whole thing tore loose and got swept away, because how much water was that going to hold. Tarp, tape, duct tape, strings, fucked, if it clogs somewhere, I'm screwed. Back to the house again for a second poker, because I need to close that fucking lid. I walk in, and that that little fucker of a cat is sprawling on the bed in the bedroom. Oh for fuck's sake! How the fuck did he get out, which way? Well, fuck, through the inspection hatch in the basement, I left it open. I'm standing here freezing my ass off and this little shit is rolling around in my sheets. I'll fucking kill him. Process him into pรขtรฉ. And out of joy he clambers up on me. Fucking hell. At least he's limping.
Damages: bathrooms fucked, water overflowed from both tubs, basement fucked because I left the inspection hatch open and a huge amount of water poured into the basement. Bedding in the bedroom - fucked. Tarp with the company logo on it - fucked. Flashlight - fucked. Poker - fucked. Spectacle on the street - fucking massive.



