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| It's not easy being clean | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Nov 30 2006, 12:07 AM (155 Views) | |
| Eral | Nov 30 2006, 12:07 AM Post #1 |
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Kopi Luwak
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Mr.FPS comes a family where spotlessness is a deeply held family value. I come from a family where cleanliness is greatly to be desired but we don't knock ourselves out dusting every day. We have little discussions all the time where Mr.FPS is gagging in horror, and I am wondering what the problem is. It sometimes turns out to be I have curled up on the new couch and haven't taken off my slippers. Or he has found a fingerprint matching that of Niece No.4 on his computer screen, which suggests I have been breaking the rule on going to the peekaboo game on the Sesame St site on his computer. Yesterday I took rump steak out of the freezer for dinner. On arriving home, Mr. FPS decided it had been in the freezer too long, and was now inedible. He was certain it smelled bad. We had take-away instead. I gave some of the meat to the cat, and minced the rest for the baby magpies in the park and placed generous globs on the fence last night. A note from Mr.FPS was on the bench this morning," Can you remove the meat if it's not eaten please." :rolleyes: :lol: |
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| Blood_Raven | Nov 30 2006, 03:04 AM Post #2 |
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Come burn with me.
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He sounds like a weird man with some obsession issues.
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| Eral | Nov 30 2006, 03:39 AM Post #3 |
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Kopi Luwak
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I think it's why we get along so well. :) |
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| lara | Nov 30 2006, 03:50 AM Post #4 |
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Kopi Luwak
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He would lose his mind in my house. Cleanliness is one of the lowest of my priorities. |
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| Eral | Nov 30 2006, 06:23 AM Post #5 |
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Kopi Luwak
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A friend of mine is like that: she has three children, and her priorities have always been mothering, not cleaning. She is a warm, easy-going, good humoured person, who is a little disorganised at times. Her husband, raised by woman with the mothering skills of a chair, was drawn to my friend's loving nature, and has been very happy with her. However, his mum was a cleaning Nazi: and after 15 years of marriage, he is still struggling to come to terms with the fact that she doesn't see the pile of washing on the couch that has been there for two days as a problem. He tries really hard not to get shitty when he comes home to a house where the surfaces do not sparkle pristinely, where kids' toys are spread liberally throughout the living room, only half of the breakfast dishes are cleaned up, and he's the only person bothered by it. 15 years. I commiserate wih my friend often about it. |
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| Eral | Dec 10 2006, 10:36 PM Post #6 |
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Kopi Luwak
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Just spent the weekend with the in-laws at the beach. Hot weather, pleasant companions, my sister-in-law's husband couldn't come at the last minute and so it was quiet too, all good. I only washed one coffee cup because my mother-in-law not very secretly believes I am not thorough enough, and that if I was allowed to wash any dishes, disease would strike the whole family down. The one coffee cup I washed: she stood watching me put it in the cupboard, clearly contemplating sneaking back later to wash it again. She had tried to get it from me before I was finished, and things nearly got ugly. When we first went to the beach, Niece No.4, nearly three years old, kept insisting we stop to clean out her sandals every few steps. In the end, Mr.FPS carried her. I was laughing quietly to myself, when Mr. FPS turned to me and said, "It's our fault, isn't it? We've made her a cleanliness neurotic." After that, she wore socks and sandals everywhere. We have a caravan on the block that hasn't been used for a while: the child's commentary? "it's (Italian word for) dirty in here." (spoka?) :lol: |
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