David vs. Toilet

Author's Note: This piece is a demonstration of cause and effect because we have been learning this skill in language arts. 

In this story, a young David Sedaris discovers a person who did not flush the toilet in a bathroom and has to get rid of the…remains.  While he would have loved to just leave it, he couldn’t because everyone knew that he was in the bathroom and that would be embarrassing if the next person in the bathroom said something about it. He tried flushing the toilet several times but nothing happened. As young David is trying to figure out how to get rid of it, someone knocks on the door.

Because of this person, now  David has to hurry up or someone will think that ‘something’ is up. If this person wouldn’t have knocked on the door than, David wouldn’t have had to hurry up. I don’t think that he would have solved his problem if Janet, girl who knocked on the door, wouldn’t have bothered him.  Also he wouldn’t even be in this predicament if the person who was in the bathroom would have dealt with this little ‘problem’ in the first place.