Plugged Pipes

Barb had been hearing a gurgling noise in our pipes since we had disconnected the water filter.  Today when we flushed the toilet water came out the drain of the bath tub and the toilet bowl didn't fill back up.  We realized that our pipes were plugged.  Barb went to ask the neighbours if their pipes were plugged and they weren't.  They gave her a plunger and Ali tried unsuccessfully to unplug the toilets.  I tried my usual trick of pouring a pot of hot soapy water down the toilet but that didn't work either.  Barb phoned her pickleball friends to see if they knew what to do.  They said she could phone the utilities people in The Villages.  So she did and in a few minutes a man in a truck came to look at the problem.  He couldn't fix it but he called some other guys, who came quickly with a big truck to suck out the pipes.  The sucker didn't help either.  So the men said that the problem wasn't with The Villages pipes, we needed to call a plumber.  Then the big black man in the group said he would try one more thing.  He opened the drain and used a power water hose to blow the plug out.  One of the guys said that if the pressure was too high, it would blow up our whole driveway.  The black man said he would just use a little pressure.  It worked and then our pipe was unplugged.  They drove away and didn't charge us anything.  Barb was so happy.  Afterwards, Ali said that the black guy did it because he wanted to help out a "brother".