Part of becoming an adult is the process of learning that most things that happened within your household growing up were not even a little bit normal.
I was 20 when I realised that not everyone refers to individual hair ties as ‘ponytails’. Outside our house, when I asked someone if they had a ‘spare ponytail’ they looked at me like I wasn’t making any sense, which upon reflection, I most definitely wasn’t.
But a recent Reddit user has shared a confession about his weird upbringing that will make you feel like your family and everything they’ve ever done is perfectly sane. Because for this person, who we’ll call Jack, a ‘poop knife’ was a normal part of his household.
Let me explain.
“My family poops big,” Jack begins – a detail that will later prove to be important. “If anyone has laid a mega-poop, you know that sometimes it won’t flush.”
“Growing up, this was a common enough occurrence that our family had a poop knife,” he writes.
Sorry… a… what?

In case you're not quite there yet, Jack's family's poop knife was used in cases where a poop was so big, it needed to be cut into smaller pieces in order to be flushed.
"It was an old rusty kitchen knife that hung on a nail in the laundry room, only to be used for that purpose. It was normal to walk through the hallway and have someone call out 'hey, can you get me the poop knife'?"
No.
Jack continues to explain that when he was 22, he went to the bathroom at a friend's house, and realised it was one of those poops. The ones that require a poop knife. So he cracked open the door and called out to his friend, who had literally no idea what he was talking about.
Top Comments
Do people honestly really do this???? This is beyond disgusting - cutting up a turd???
yes my thoughts exactly - I don't get it and yes it is beyond disgusting!
The best one I saw about the poop knives was the family that had a poop machete - that Grandpa had named 'the mashitty'. I've always been somewhat perplexed by all these stories Americans tell about blocked toilets. I've never blocked one in my life, I've never heard my friends tell these horror stories. Then I saw a video comparing Australian and American toilets. Apparently our loos have a different flushing set up, plus narrower pipes. (If you're interested, have a look at the Caroma Dual Flush Toilet video on YouTube.) And suddenly it all makes sense, and I am once again so relieved that I live in Australia and can poop (more or less) worry free!