Carefree, reckless, flappers seemed to enjoy living on the edge, like these atop Chicago’s Sherman Hotel. George Rinhart / Corbis via Getty Images She was the sexy ingénue, spending evenings in ...

"So if at any point in the day you hear the toilet bowl refilling itself and no one has flushed it … the flapper is broken," he says. The toilet flapper is a rubber seal in your toilet's tank that ...