playing handyman

The ice wells and the sinks at my work all drain into grates in the floor. Yesterday when I cleaned out one of the ice wells, there was a huge mess on the floor. Most of the water that I used to sluice it out was making a puddle. Today I watched carefully and saw that it was backing up and overflowing, so I decided to bravely reach into the murky depths to investigate the issue. I discovered that a whole apple had somehow fallen into the space below the grate and it had a diameter about the same as the pipe in the bottom. Remove the apple, problem solved. I was happy that it took me only a few minutes to fix something that could have plagued us for months, and I was happy that it was a whole apple and not a heap of unidentifiable things.