Not sure if this bit of annoyance belongs to the cat or my husband, but hell, the man’s an easy target:
On arriving home at 8:30 I find him sitting on the couch watching TV and reading the paper. He’s been home since 5:30. I stay in the kitchen getting dinner ready, putting dishes in the dishwasher from the sink, and preparing things for lunch the next day. When I head to through the family room to hang up my work clothes he warns me,
On arriving home at 8:30 I find him sitting on the couch watching TV and reading the paper. He’s been home since 5:30. I stay in the kitchen getting dinner ready, putting dishes in the dishwasher from the sink, and preparing things for lunch the next day. When I head to through the family room to hang up my work clothes he warns me,
“Watch out for those two piles of cat barf in the floor.”
There they are, right in front of the TV like he says. I just give him one of those looks, navigate deftly around the mess, and continue my trip to the bedroom to change. The barf is still there.
And I had given him the benefit of the doubt. Okay, f*ck your brains out while man and cat are passed out at home.
ReplyDeleteThanks Matt, The sad part is this is what he does when he's trying. Before he wouldn't have warned me to watch where I stepped. If you will excuse me, I gotta go clean up that damn cat barf, and I will follow the other advice as soon as is humanly possible.
ReplyDeleteI live alone and have no one to warn me about cat bombs. I just have to find them myself with my bare feet.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome to him Mist, but I'm afraid that's just about the extent of his helpfulness. Oh, when I went in and cleaned it up while he watched, he said, "Oh, I was going to do that." Sigh.
ReplyDeletewell at least the thought was there. you know what they say about the thought being the one that counts!
ReplyDeleteI love Robert Fulghum. Good stuff. Robert, not the cat yack.
ReplyDeleteSo Roselle, what do you suppose was he thinking? My guess would be if "I can just wait this out and get out of doing anything, again, he-he-he" and of course, it worked, again.
ReplyDeleteVal: Yeah, he's great. Maybe that would be a good gift for the husband for some occasion. On second thought, it would just be something else I'd have to pick up from the floor or the coffee table. Never mind.
I would have done the same thing.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry for it.