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Monday, April 25, 2011

Laudry List of Qualities

So if you're a girl you'll know about this, if you're a boy you might. Most girls have a list of desirable qualities they want their future love partner to have. You make them bimonthly in Young Woman's. They've made movies about it. It has many different names, but the most common is the check list. I've always thought they were kind of dumb. I mean how many guys are there out there who are well traveled, well read, have a foreign accent, can cook, are hillarious, spontaneous, respectful, never get mad and look like a mix between Brad Pitt and David Beckham? Not too many. I mean have standards and what not, but not falling in love with someone because he doesn't play a musical instrument or speak three different languages is just dumb. None the less I have a few things that any future domestic partner of mine must already do, or be molded to do. (See, I'm willing to train them, not being hypocritical here.)
  1. If they tinkle when the sprinkle they must be neat and wipe the seat. The toilet seat up thing doesn't bug me so much. I'd much rather have that in the middle of the night than to sit down in a pile of urine that is not my own. It's gross, and years of experience with two brothers has not made it better.
  2. In other bathroom related news there will be no leaving empty rolls of toilet paper. Just freaking pull a new one out and set it within reach of the toilet. PLEASE. Also it there are only two squares left and they're all thin and sticking to the roll, replace that too.
  3. No leaving hair of any kind on the wall of the shower. I don't care where it comes from, it freaks me out. It also means I have to spend 5 minutes trying to gather water enough in my hands and wash it down the drain without touching the foreign hair.
  4. And clean out the drain. If I mistake your hair for a dead rodent, we have an issue.
  5. No talking to me while I am using the bathroom. Unless someone is dead, it can wait. And even if someone is dead maybe just tell me to hurry, because who wants to hear death related news on the potty?
  6. Be ok with all my bathroom related oddities.
  7. Don't ask me if I remembered to get milk when a) you never asked me to get milk and b) I TAKE THE FRIGGIN BUS AND YOU HAVE A CAR. Milk is heavy ya ho, so no I didn't get it, haul it to the bus station and then lug it home.
  8. If I'm watching a movie, don't ask me nonrelated, nonessential questions. Also, don't ask me stupid plot related questions. If you shut up and watch the movie you'll find out, and I won't have to tell you/hit you.
  9. My bidness, is my bidness. If I don't elaborate, or I dodge your questions I don't want you to know.
  10. Conversely, your bidness is YOUR bidness. If I didn't ask, you decide to tell me anyway, and I am now answering in one syllable words and grunts and have gone back to surfing the internet or reading it means I'm busy not caring and you should scurry away.
Looking at this list I realize it's not just a guide for future domestic partners or lovers its a list for anyone I live with. And personally I really don't think I'm asking too much here. Am I?

2 comments:

  1. Noted. Be glad I'm not sharing a bathroom with you. It's not that I don't clean up my hair, it's just that thee's so much of it that sometimes some of it gets left behind.

    Talking to people in the bathroom is weird. Who does that?

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