Coping strategies

You know it has happened too much when you have built in coping strategies to try and help you deal with it.
This being one of them.
I wish I'd kept the plug in. The air was cleaner with the plug in. But I re-filled the sink and let the plug out, and now putting the plug back in just adds to everything already in my u-bend. I need a plumber.
The fact that it bothers me, bothers me. Knowing that it's not going to just go away makes it worse. Because its dragged the scum back up, the shit. All the fucking shit.