Why am I the only one who notices the trash is full?(Oh, I'm the maid, I forgot...)

[AlanFromWichita]

dwc:

No need to run – this isn’t a thread just for women! You make a good point about the garbage, kudos to you for figuring out how to change the tp roll.

The tp roll is something that I wish others would leave to the professionals sometimes.

When others change the tp, it seems they had just as soon put it in so that the paper comes off the BACK of the roll! :bigyikes:

I mean, Come ON!! Even Miss Manners said the tp should come off the front of the roll! I fix it in my own house and have given up educating others about it. When I’m in others’ houses I try to leave it alone and let them have their own miserable way of doing it; I figure it’s getting me back for having to use their bathroom in the first place.

Alan

 

[dwc]

When I’m in others’ houses I try to leave it alone and let them have their own miserable way of doing it;

LOL, I have this vision of you as a masked man, creeping into your hosts’ bathrooms, furtively fixing the toilet paper so it rolls smoothly down the front of the roll, toward the recipient …

 

[AlanFromWichita]

dwc:

LOL, I have this vision of you as a masked man, creeping into your hosts’ bathrooms, furtively fixing the toilet paper so it rolls smoothly down the front of the roll, toward the recipient …

OH NO. I’ve been caught. I’d better get into my gear…

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[Lapsed]

AlanFromWichita:

The tp roll is something that I wish others would leave to the professionals sometimes.

When others change the tp, it seems they had just as soon put it in so that the paper comes off the BACK of the roll! :bigyikes:

I mean, Come ON!! Even Miss Manners said the tp should come off the front of the roll! I fix it in my own house and have given up educating others about it. When I’m in others’ houses I try to leave it alone and let them have their own miserable way of doing it; I figure it’s getting me back for having to use their bathroom in the first place.

Alan

I don’t care what Miss Manners says! She is wrong! And so are you! The tp should always come off the bottom of the roll! Always!

No wonder North America is falling apart!

 

[spiritblows]

AlanFromWichita:

The tp roll is something that I wish others would leave to the professionals sometimes.

When others change the tp, it seems they had just as soon put it in so that the paper comes off the BACK of the roll! :bigyikes:

I mean, Come ON!! Even Miss Manners said the tp should come off the front of the roll! I fix it in my own house and have given up educating others about it. When I’m in others’ houses I try to leave it alone and let them have their own miserable way of doing it; I figure it’s getting me back for having to use their bathroom in the first place.

Alan

Dear Alan,
I think I read somewhere that 15% of the population prefers it to dispense from the back. My mother used to always set it up that way. I asked her why once and she said that it rips off more easily with a one-hand quick jerk, without causing the TP to roll as you pull. She was a very type - A meticulous woman, so I’m sure it’s okay to have it dispense from the back.

I am haphazard in how I put the roll on myself. I’m an artistic personality…

 

[AlanFromWichita]

Lapsed:

I don’t care what Miss Manners says! She is wrong! And so are you! The tp should always come off the bottom of the roll! Always!

No wonder North America is falling apart!

Them’s fightin’ words. :tiphat:

 

[spiritblows]

See my new thread and poll on this important topic of the day. This is a life or death matter! It’s to be found in the family life forum, fyi.

 

[turboEDvo]

I dunno, I just started taking it out one day to be nice to my parents. Don’t ask me why…

Eamon

 

[AlanFromWichita]

Once, after watching my wife, St. Julie, lugging out the dumpsters on Sunday evening, a friend of hers opined, “I can’t believe you have to do that. I do a lot of work but at home no woman should ever take out the trash. It is the man’s job.”

When Julie relayed this message to me a few days later, I replied, “That is why I am so grateful that you married me and that the Holy Spirit didn’t let me wind up married to some awful person like her.”

Alan

 

[SeekerJen]

ReginaNova:

I don’t even mind taking out the trash. But it would be so nice if my teens could walk a few feet and put the clothes in the laundry hamper rather than on the floor.:tsktsk:

My thirty-year-old husband has finally made progress in this area. Instead of simply dropping the clothes on the floor next to the fancy hamper he insisted on buying, he actually deposits the clothes on top of the hamper lid. Maybe soon he’ll learn to take initiative and actually put the clothes in the hamper. I know it’s asking a lot, but…

I’m also not sure why the concept of looking beyond the front layer of items in the refrigerator or cupboard is so foreign.

From this very morning, 7 AM:
DH: “We’re out of string cheese.”
Me: “No, we’re not.”
DH: “You just ate the last one.”
Me: “No, I didn’t. There’s still half a pack in there.”
DH: “It’s not here.”
Me: “Check the bin where we always keep the cheese.”
DH: “Oh. Hey, there it is!”
Me: :banghead:

Repeat 15 minutes later with fruit cups. This happens at least weekly.

But hey, he always takes out the trash. It’s not all bad.

 

[AlanFromWichita]

SeekerJen:

My thirty-year-old husband has finally made progress in this area. Instead of simply dropping the clothes on the floor next to the fancy hamper he insisted on buying, he actually deposits the clothes on top of the hamper lid. Maybe soon he’ll learn to take initiative and actually put the clothes in the hamper. I know it’s asking a lot, but…

I can fully empathize with him. Laundry involves all sort of complicated sorting algorithms, which seem simple to a man but surely he will stumble any time he presumes one piece of dirty clothing is destined to touch any particular other. Since he has no idea how a single-cavity container plays into this sorting game, one can fear entering a dirty-clothes “cloister” as it were of pieces who were supposedly isolated.

I suggest you put a holy water font next to the laundry bin, and post a sign, “ANY dirty clothes (except shoes) may be deposited here without additional authorization – you will not be held responsible for mixing whites with reds.” Make it his job to keep water in the font, and if it goes dry get really concerned about it.

Alan

 

[spiritblows]

AlanFromWichita:

I can fully empathize with him. Laundry involves all sort of complicated sorting algorithms, which seem simple to a man but surely he will stumble any time he presumes one piece of dirty clothing is destined to touch any particular other. Since he has no idea how a single-cavity container plays into this sorting game, one can fear entering a dirty-clothes “cloister” as it were of pieces who were supposedly isolated.

I suggest you put a holy water font next to the laundry bin, and post a sign, “ANY dirty clothes (except shoes) may be deposited here without additional authorization – you will not be held responsible for mixing whites with reds.” Make it his job to keep water in the font, and if it goes dry get really concerned about it.

Alan

I’ve heard of the pulseless V-tach, V-fib algorithm, the PEA algorythm, the asystole algorithm, the tachcardia algorithm, bradycardia algorithm, ect and so forth. However, the laundry sorting algorithm is new to me…

 

[tamccrackine]

spiritblows:

I’ve heard of the pulseless V-tach, V-fib algorithm, the PEA algorythm, the asystole algorithm, the tachcardia algorithm, bradycardia algorithm, ect and so forth. However, the laundry sorting algorithm is new to me…

Yep, my husband is a Mensa so he knows this one… he executed it flawlessly while I was still in the hospital after giving birth to our first. I come home and there is a load of clothes STILL in the washer… it had been in there since right after birth so it was about 3 days old… so, not only did they smell moldy, but it was a load of whites/light colors, with a red maternity shirt, blue jeans… need I say more? That was the last time he every touched the laundry again and he KNOWS he executed that algorithm perfectly.

 

[AlanFromWichita]

tamccrackine:

Yep, my husband is a Mensa so he knows this one… he executed it flawlessly while I was still in the hospital after giving birth to our first. I come home and there is a load of clothes STILL in the washer… it had been in there since right after birth so it was about 3 days old… so, not only did they smell moldy, but it was a load of whites/light colors, with a red maternity shirt, blue jeans… need I say more? That was the last time he every touched the laundry again and he KNOWS he executed that algorithm perfectly.

Yep! Executed perfectly.

Some of the best all-purpose advice I’ve ever received as a “head of a household” or as an employee of a bureaucracy is:

“Never become an expert at something you despise doing.”

Alan

 

[puzzleannie]

sarcophagus:

Don’t . Laundry is an ongoing fight about who has to do it. It usually ends up being me.

just had a conversation with a friend last night who is steaming because she loaded the laundry in his truck, as a gentle hint for him to do it after work, and when she came home, laundry baskets were in the back of her car–still dirty.

 

[AlanFromWichita]

puzzleannie:

just had a conversation with a friend last night who is steaming because she loaded the laundry in his truck, as a gentle hint for him to do it after work, and when she came home, laundry baskets were in the back of her car–still dirty.

Lesson for wives: dont’ bother trying to be subtle and give “hints” for anything. If the men figure it out at all, it comes across as the worst kind of nagging – the kind that’s best to pretend one didn’t notice at all. Even if a male is about to actually do something for once in a long while (and of course expect much fanfare) this kind of thing can sidetrack it because not only does it ruin the surprise, it turns it into a defeat!

Chances are, though, it will be honest – yes, men CAN be as clueless as they act. If he did notice the laundry he might have thought, “huh, that’s strange” and then went on about the day with some vague notion that she was maybe using his truck as a staging area because her own was too full of stuff.

Remember how many Real Women it takes to change a light bulb. (ans: they don’t try to change them; they accept them as they are) Works for changing men, too; pray for God to change Him – you’ll probably need that much power.

Alan

 

[aspawloski4th]

spiritblows:

I’m just asking for a little initiative on the part of my family. I know I’m everyone’s maid, but why can’t they just notice that the trash is full, instead of putting one more thing on it that doesn’t fit?

Am I the only one with this problem?

to qualify this, me and my wife have no children. Im the one who takes out the trash. But wifey also knows I do it once a week on the night before the garbage truck comes and only then, whether it is full or near empty. Because it is a routine in that way you know it will get done. she also knows it isnt a good idea fill the trash conainers before garbage day because I only do the trash then.

 

[gardenswithkids]

spiritblows:

…why can’t they just notice that the trash is full, instead of putting one more thing on it that doesn’t fit?

Am I the only one with this problem?

Lucky you! In order to have this problem, it must mean that your children actually attempt to put trash in a trash can. I seem to be the only one who notices that the trash is full, but then I might be the only one using it. (Well, DH notices too; he tells me to get the kids to take out the trash.)