I cleaned my kids bathroom today. It was long overdue. Of course the kids bathroom is long overdue for a cleaning 24 hours after I clean it but it had been much longer than that. Due to sensitive stomachs I will refrain from telling you just how long it had been.
As I was cleaning it reminded me of another time that I cleaned a very dirty bathroom. In college just before Christmas break it was time for the cleaning check. One of my roommates was assigned one of the bathrooms but was running late and didn't have time to clean it before her flight back home. I volunteered to clean it during the break because I wasn't leaving town. During the break however, before I had a chance to clean it I got the stomach flu. I obviously didn't clean the bathroom and called our landlords who were doing the cleaning check to warn them. The thought of entering our disease ridden apartment was enough for them to decide to skip the cleaning check all together. Well I completely forgot about cleaning the bathroom because John was also in town for the break, and well, he's a really good kisser.
The break ended and the roommates started coming back in town. We started classes and got busy. The bathroom was bad. It had been far to long since the bathroom was cleaned so one afternoon I finally did it.
We didn't have any rubber gloves so I got plastic sandwich bags to cover my hands and spent almost 2 hours scrubbing that bathroom until nary a germ could be found. That afternoon two of my roommates were having a conversation. My one roommate informed the other that I had spent 2 hours cleaning the bathroom.
"Bless her heart!" My other roommate exclaimed. Silence ensued for a moment when my roommate said "You know, 'bless her heart' is just code for 'she's an idiot."
It's true. Try it next time you hear someone say "bless his heart", fill in "he's an idiot". It works ever time. And if you're like me you will then have to try and hide your smile if front of the person who said it.
6 comments:
I never have to clean my kids bathroom again! I have it down where one of there daily chores is to wipe down the bathroom and scrub the toilet and every saturday they sweep & mop the floors and take out the trashes! My best idea yet! (We've been doing it since summer and I haven't had to go in there to clean it up yet!)
Hahahahahaha! What a good memory! Although I have a few questions...you weren't cleaning the bathroom for me right? I was the roommate that said "bless your heart" was code for "you're an idiot" right? Also, wasn't that also the same break where you went for a ride in the shopping cart on ice? Such fun times! I absolutely loved being your roommate Allison. It was the best!
Sorry Allison, that was a little more information on my brother than I needed to know!
Hahaha...SO true!
Yes Alyssa, you were the beloved roomate who filled me in on the "code". And I am so glad that you remember me as slipping on the ice rather than just tripping over my own two feet as it actually happened (though that was the year prior actually). I like a slipping on ice story much better.
I would like to point out that the title of your blog is "The Fun is Just Beginning" and this post was all about cleaning bathrooms.
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