we are worried about you!

So the day begins with me brushing my teeth in the small cramped space known as my shower...and as I am brushing I look down into the tub at the drain and notice there is a lack of bright yellow cork things. To clarify my shower/tub(its not meant to be a shower but I have converted it to one) can not filter hair, or frankly anything other than water. When you wash your hair some falls out and should go down the drain right? well you'd be wrong in my case. I need a plastic sponge thing that fits into the drain and it needs to be replaced about every 3 days. Back to teeth brushing, I look down to see the yellow sponge missing, there are little things that hold sponge in place and after two months of living in japan they have finally failed me. So the sponge is gone, sucked down the drain, and it is know plugging up my shower making it unusable do to water taking like 5 hours to drain. I took a flashlight and look, stick a hanger into the drain, no sign of it..damn... So I leave for work and finish my school day and as I'm sitting in the office I finally remember to tell my supervisor about it. Hell if I know how to fix it. My supervisor is a super sweet woman a few years older than me who after me describing and drawing a picture of what has happened to my bathtub starts freaking out and babbling away in japanese to everyother co-worker in the office. I'm thinking shit now everyone knows about the plight of my shower, then suddenly someone in my office starts making what is the universal sign for plunger. That would be charades version of plunging the toliet. So I say 'a plunger??' they all continue to charade along with the sound effect of doko doko. Then they ask if I have a plunger, I say no but I can buy one at the hundred yen store cheap, and in that brief second of hesitation the co-worker who sits next to me runs away and returns with the nasty office plunger and offers it to me..To apparently take home and use..IN MY BATHTUB.. No way in heck do I want it but after me saying no no no no no no no repeat this several hundred times my supervisor lovingly says they are worried about you and your safety. UGH now I have to take it and the co-worker sets the plunger right next to my desk. Great.....I tossed it into a bag and put the whole thing in another bag. As I'm leaving the office gives a horrified gasp because I put the plunger(it was cover in plastic) in my work bag and they kept saying oh but its dirty dont put it in your bag!! Do you want me to take it or not!! I took it home(yes I walked home carrying a plunger) and fixed it and now all is well. Today everyone asked is your shower fixed and I can smile and say yes it is. Thanks to a stinky office plunger.