A woman came home from work one day and was surprised to find that the kitchen floor had been scrubbed, the stove scoured and the refrigerator cleaned. Knowing her husband’s dislike for houseweork, she was understandably puzzled. Then she found this note:
“Clean kitchen not my idea. Had to clean up the nine eggs that went flying when I knocked the egg tray loose in my haste to grab the baking soda out of the fridge, to throw on the fire, that started in the broiler, when I tried to cook a hamburger without dirtying a pan. P.S. Went out for a hamburger. Be back soon.”
(this was taken from a Reader’s Digest quite a few years ago; contributed by Thomas R. Hunt)
I kinda felt this way recently!! I heard the freezer downstairs running and running. So I decided to see what was up. First, I hauled everything out and put it in the sink and in a laundry basket – and covered the two piles with blankets to keep them cold. Well, it’s a frost free freezer, so there wasn’t frost to clean out. But I did find ice in the back, behind the back ‘wall’ – with a little gap at the bottom. I figured that must be the problem. Well, there was no way to get that ice out except to let it sit and thaw. It wasn’t thawed by bedtime, so I left it all over night, hoping that everything would be frozen in the morning still, somehow.
Well, it came time to wipe the freezer down and to put everything back. So I pulled everything out of the sink and put it in, then the laundry basket. Alas, the blueberries didn’t stay frozen. They were swimming in their juice. So, I put them in a bucket, and continued reloading the freezer. Then the fun began!
The basket was now full of blueberry juice, so I picked it up to dump in the sink. Of course, some splashed out onto the floor!! And all over the sink. So by the time I got done, I had a clean freezer, a clean floor, a clean sink, and a clean laundry basket!! Maybe I should clean the freezer out more often!!
how long did that all take?
I don’t know…. not toooo long