Least favorite household task

[couw]

"wrinkles are okay if you don't smell them"

[slide_advantage_redoux]

Sex. It's so....lonely.

In the inimitable words of Woody Allen: "The first time I had sex I was terrified; I was all alone"

[slide_advantage_redoux]

I knew a guitar player in college who once pulled out a bunch of ECM albums w/pictures of John Abercrombie on them. "Look at this cat", he said. "Every f--kin' thing he wears is wrinkled all to hell. But it's all new and it's all expensive. THAT'S the secret - if everything you wear is new and expensive, it doesn't matter HOW wrinkled it is!" He said this with the enthusiasm of a man who had just discovered something obvious yet heretofore unknown.

Having not solicited ANY of this (ECM, Abercrombie, or clothes), I was more than a little, uh, taken aback by this sudden turn in the conversation, but as the initial shock wore off, the point began to seem sound, and it grows more sound every year. The "expensive" part I compromise with as much/little as I have to, and the "new" part varies in direct conversion to the "expensive" part, but the "it doesn't matter HOW wrinkled it is part" remains a staple of my esthetic. Get good stuff, take good care of it, and the wrinkles will indeed become a "look" that, with a LOT of personal confidence and proper attitude and posture, almost anybody can pull of with style and elan.

Here's to ya', John Abercrombie. Your fashion sense reached me in a way your music never did!

I had a cabinmate on the SS Norway who somehow managed to have every piece of clothing on his body (those that were visible anyway) wrinkled, even the tie. Baffling.

[dave9199]

My wife & I have 4 cats and the 2 youngest (from the same litter) at some point started to pee in the litterbox while standing on all fours. The litterboxes are not covered so every week I get to clean pee off of the floor. I'll be investing in covered boxes very soon...

[ejp626]

My wife & I have 4 cats and the 2 youngest (from the same litter) at some point started to pee in the litterbox while standing on all fours. The litterboxes are not covered so every week I get to clean pee off of the floor. I'll be investing in covered boxes very soon...

Yeah, I had a cat like that, so a covered box was a real necessity.

I don't mind laundry, too much, but I just hate doing dishes. It's way beyond rational.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Unlike O V Wright, I DO do windows. We live in the rainiest part of Britain, so I am "persuaded" to do them every day the sun shines.

The worst thing is, this new house has new-fangled upstairs windows that can be taken off the hinges and moved into the centre of their aperture; so you can clean the outside without using a ladder.

There are some advances in technology that MUST have been created by women.

MG

[Epithet]

My wife & I have 4 cats and the 2 youngest (from the same litter) at some point started to pee in the litterbox while standing on all fours. The litterboxes are not covered so every week I get to clean pee off of the floor. I'll be investing in covered boxes very soon...

Yeah, I had a cat like that, so a covered box was a real necessity.

What other positions are there?

[Jim Alfredson]

Wow. I missed this one the first time around.

I hate doing the litter boxes (which is now just one litter box, since my wife's sister finally took her damn cat back). In fact, I've come to pretty much despise cats in general.

Lately, I've been able to use the excuse of my aching back to get out of changing the cat litter, but now that I'm getting better, my wife is getting wise.

I can take all the vacuuming, window cleaning, dish washing, laundry doing, clothes folding, dusting, wiping, Windexing, sorting, and changing diapers you can throw at me. But I hate frickin' cat boxes.

[ejp626]

My wife & I have 4 cats and the 2 youngest (from the same litter) at some point started to pee in the litterbox while standing on all fours. The litterboxes are not covered so every week I get to clean pee off of the floor. I'll be investing in covered boxes very soon...

Yeah, I had a cat like that, so a covered box was a real necessity.

What other positions are there?

There is a big difference between a female cat that pees while standing up straight on its back legs vs. squatting.

[dave9199]

The main difference being having to clean up pee on the floor! It incorporates two other task so that the task of cleaning the litter boxes is magnified. I have to go shopping first to get a bag of litter, then change it, then take out the trash because the trash bag won't hold anymore after this. I still love 'em...except when they wake us up at 5:30 by running around and clawing the bottom of the bed which, when your ear is on the bed, is quite loud.......friggin' cats.

[Christiern]

Folding laundry and putting shirts on hangers is probably what I dislike the most. Cleaning the bathroom is a close second. Can't stand cats, so that has never been a problem, but puppies have given me some grief over the years--they learn, however.

Cleaning windows was a problem until they installed the ones that have bottom hinges and can be opened into the apartment. The blade tops of the ceiling fan over my bed seriously needs to be cleaned--I procrastinate.