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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Visual cues – are you guilty?

He trips over laundry soaking in a bucket as he comes in from the garage.
“Sorry dear, I left it there to remind me to put it on to wash.” He shakes the water off his sock and steps into the kitchen where I’m standing at the sink. He leans on the counter and hastily removes his hand, “oh sorry dear, I’m just leaving their paintings to dry there so that I don’t forget to pin them up before we go to bed.” He stretches past me to reach the soap but tips over the upside down bottles, “don’t tell me, you’re just trying to get the last few drops out, right?” He knows me so well.

The floor is strewn with piles, socks to match, paperwork to be completed, junior’s collection of oral desensitizers to be sterilized, backpacks to be filled, library books to be returned, each an indication of my diminished brain capacity as the years advance. He taps the sack of slug pellets with the tip of his toe, “yet another job?”
“No, I did manage to get out into the garden but the sacks there to remind me to put it away somewhere safe.”
“Great, so of all these things that you want to do, productivity today has been limited to the annihilation of the gastropod population!”
“World peace would have been a better option.”

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Excellent punchline.

Regards - Shinga

Jerry Grasso said...

The dog also leaves out his tennis balls in our house. I have fallen over those...what's a house but a place to put stuff? No one said it had to go in drawers or closets, right?

AS said...

Totally guilty...the trash bag in front of the front door so I can't go out without taking it with me...the bills to post on top of my calendar so I can't turn to the next day without taking them outside first...

kristina said...

How many piles of books and of files sit before me---how can I begin the count.....

Kim Rossi Stagliano said...

Your kids are darling! Why don't our kids get research?? I mean really? Not just genetics research or telling us it's too much Elmo or funky old sperm either. Or the fabulous study that learned parents of toddlers with autism are under more stress than parents with neurotypical kids. Ay yi yi! Always nice to hear from you.

KIM

 
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