Monday, April 14, 2008
Polar Opposites
Weinercats and Phollower were discussing reseating a toilet the other day. This is a job Phollower and I think is odious, requiring (mostly for my benefit I imagine) a ton of hand washing, tool washing, floor washing,...you get the idea. Weinercats said she and her partner were less "anal" (ba-dum-dum). Weinercats told Phollower a little story to demonstrate the difference. Weinercats' partner works with animals all day. Here is the picture as it was painted by Phollower: Weinercats' partner is holding the butt end of a large animal while they are working on it, reaches over, takes a bite of her sandwich, goes back to holding such animal still. Notice - no hand washing step. Just before he told me this story, I had eaten lunch. I wanted to read the book I borrowed from the library during lunch. Before getting the book out, I had thought to myself - are there too many germs on a library book to read it while I am eating? I would definitely have to wash my hands between butt holding and sandwich eating.
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I TOTALLY AGREE ABOUT LIBRARY BOOKS. You never know where they have been.
Hm. Mrs. Oz may disprove this statement, but I've found my tolerance for the threat of germs has increased phenomenally since acquiring both a dog and a kid. Somehow there just isn't time in the day for all the hand washing I would have thought I'd need to be doing with so much crap falling on the floor and/or getting licked (or both).
Of course, maybe that's why I keep coming down with unexplained fevers...
I'm just thankful there aren't many opportunities in my daily life that would put me in the position of simultaneous sandwhich eating/butt holding.
I gotta tell you, I wouldn't think twice about grabbing a library book, but somewhere in between holding the ass-end of an animal and taking a bite of my sandwich, there's going to be a handwashing step in there somewhere.
Phollower may have exaggerated just a wee bit, but I must say, in our defense, neither one of us has been sick this past year.
weinercats: Ok, it was a bit of an exaggeration, but not too much. I especially liked when we pretended to be chewing something out from under our fingernails and thinking out loud, "Nope, it ain't roast beef..."
And in case anyone was unclear about Sylvia's stance on it, A2M is right out in our relationship.
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