The Super Cheesy Flush Fixer

I must confess that I have lost the urge for a lot of precise handy work around the house since I have been afflicted with constant pain. When something croaks around here I want to screech in frustration. There was a time when I faced some minor lawnmower repair or other such thing with glee. Now I just go for the fastest fix with the least amount of effort and preferably no drive of torment to get any parts. Mail order is my best friend these days! I was horrified last week when the flush handle on the toilet broke. Yuck! I had to bend to fool with the thing, and my now weak and painful hands just didn't have what it took to get all of the parts from the old flush lever off that night! So I went on an eye level scrounge something up that will spare us from reaching into the tank to pull up the cheap little flapper chain mission and I came up with a truly hideous yet effective solution, thanks to a haphazard piece of coathanger left on a shelf in a convenient location! It wasn't pretty, but it worked without us having to keep the top off the thing until a new fancy lever came our way-which my 64 year old mother had to install due to my inability to bend or untighten the old plastic stuff left behind. So here is the super cheesy flush fix in all of its glory:

All one had to do to make it work was pull it out slightly and then push it back in slightly. When my mother saw this, it propelled her straight to Lowes and I didn't have to resort to mail order! If you happen to be in a bind for a flush lever and happen to have a piece of wire, you too can improvise and not have to keep the top off the tank! If you have enough wire, you can bend it into a fancier facsimile of a true flush lever as desired. Me? Oh no, I'm flat out uninclined. If it works, it is good enough.