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Show if I hang around too she starts asking me to do long like I if wasn't busy or things... something. I usually just act like I didnt hear her. Huh. Whatd you say? I got to go to the garage. Time to change that old furnace filter, you housework and cleaning; you know, give her tips here and there where I can see things that she could be more I efficient with. kitchen the into going dedded to take the plate and I love clean. I just don't like fork into the kitchen. doing it Clean yes... Cleaning I even picked it up and was NO! Its that action word. The half way to the kitchen sink, old ing ending that makes when I decided that I had to that word sound so much like make a stand, you know, a work. Clean yes.. Cleaning teaching moment, stick up for NO! Just saying the word kind the prindple of the thing. So of gives me the jitters... go right then and there I dedded ahead say it again ... that I would not put the plate Cleaning". and fork away and put it back Sometimes when I dont to see have anything to do, I come by the computer just how long it would take before into the kitchen to watch my it bothered someone else too kind and loving wife work. enough that they would pick If I had any thoughts of trying it up and take it to the kitchen to get through this aversion to sink. house work neurosis, I quickly You know, after a few abandon it as she darts from months of waiting, it was still task to task. there. Just sitting; like an Change the wash, load the expensive Lladro called Plate dish washer, fix lunch, clean and Fork-- Domestic Bliss. It up, call to schedule her visiting had been there so long that we teaching, make bread for the finally had to decorate around neighbor, prepare a lesson, it. help with a scout project, find so I am and someones socks or shirt, Finally thankful Lori Maughan sweep, vacuum. came by to visit one time and Well, I am sure you can see and I get so tired. It isn't like it why picked up actually washed it too. I love that I can just sit and enjoy woman. I think she has lots watching her work like I would of practice picking up after like to. Noooo, she says, Rhett. He is kind of messy. In Move! Lift your feet! Slide fact, he has to hire three or over. Move over there. four other women just to keep After a while I just get worn him doing what it is he is out and me and Thrbo saunter outside on the deck where we supposed to be doing. At first I tried to blame this are a little more free and lack of cleaning expertise on undisturbed so that we can my too kind and loving wife, make observations about life but she actually does house and important stuff like work and doesn't break out in worrying about the economy. hives. Although, it does make I know I have a great deal of her cranky sometimes. But influence over that I mean I that is so seldom that I hardly have been wanting to do think it worth mentioning. something about interest rates But I do try and support her, for some time. so I like to talk to her about Anyway, THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday, May 2, 2001 -- PaplS I hate house work I have decided that I hate house work. In fact, I would almost rather clean concrete forms than do house work. You would think since I live in My Cave, I could just hose it out once in a while and certain people wouldn't have cow. a But lately, my too kind by Gary Torres and loving wife thinks I need to improve my house cleaning skills. Seriously, I think I am allergic to house work, because one time I did some and I developed a real nervous twitch and broke out in hives. Whew, I am still in therapy for that little episode. I think I suffer from post traumatic stress syndrome. I still duck and run for cover when I hear the vacuum turn on. I was hoping that this aversion to house work would skip a generation, as I can see some benefit to my kids knowing how to dean up after themselves. But my kids seem to have picked up this errant gene which, as far as I can document, is the only thing they have ever picked up. One time someone left a plate and fork by the computer, in spite of my very strict rule of no eating or drinking by the computer. there is this plate and fork by the computer and it really bothered me, so as I was Anyway, . And one small technical note here, no one ever told me that I wasn't supposed to use the Lemon Wax Smelly Stuff know. to clean the toilet. It sure made it look clean. It was kind of slick when you sat down, but I thought it made the whole commode have a Okay, there are a few household cleaning chores that I don't mind doing. I don't mind dusting. Although it appears to me that when you use that little high gloss look and the lemony smell didn't hurt any. Any way, I am not allowed to use the Pledge any more. And how come men and it just stirs the women fight about house dust up and doesnt actually work all the time. The women clean anything. But at least it never think we ever do our fair moves the dust from one place share. I was hoping to dispel to another so I guess that this myth and started to show counts. my too kind and loving wife I can do the feather-thingthat in fact men do more than Lemon their fair share. I told her I I the Although, prefer method of Pledge dusting, would vacuum and grabbed which I think I am quite good the vacuum and plugged it in at And besides, I think when and I couldn't find the starter you spray a lot of it., like five button. times more than you need, it Well, you can imagine my There I was, gives you a little high. Probably surprise. the only thing Utah people can determined to show my too legally buy. Although I bet it is kind and loving wife that the 3.2 lemon, not the real indeed I was pretty handy powerful lemon stuff like you around the house. But I can get in other states. couldnt find the starter Doesnt spraying all that button. Finally I thought that lemony stuff just trap the dust perhaps you could push start in a thick layer ofwax build-u- p it like a car and so I started so you can spread it all over rolling it around. That didn't everything else that might have work either. been clean? I think I have Finally she showed me waxed a car with less wax than where the starter button was. I put on the coffee table. But Why on earth they would hide at least the dust does not get the starter button there is stirred up and get in your lungs beyond me. And another liV tViw faithmiptfiiiijy mathral thing I didnt like about the vacuum was it didn't have a I Although am pretty sure that the Lemon Pledge build up in beverage holder. How dumb feather-thing- y y. - your lungs cant be good either. But heck sakes, if it doesnt make me feel pretty to be twirling around singing the song Lemon Pledge, very pretty... can that be? - And. one last bit of unfinished business. Dear Ben Boyle: The CaveGuys daughter says Yes!!! 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