What I love about N is that he never uses a person’s gaffes to make her feel bad. (And I’m like that, too, in RL if not on the blog.)
Today, for instance, it turned out that carpet cleaning is taking a lot longer than I thought and we have to camp out in the basement for the night.
“Did you think it would take less time?” N asks.
“Yes, because we did carpet cleaning back in Montréal, and it took very little time,” I explain.
“Maybe the square footage was a bit smaller,” N muses, and I collapse with laughter. Yes, it was a bit smaller. It was the tiniest little one-bedroom we managed to find in downtown Montréal. And I thought it would take the same time to clean as this huge place.
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I have wall-to-wall carpeting in my house, and every time I’ve had it cleaned, it was dry and could be walked on with an hour or so after cleaning. Your cleaners must be using an antique cleaning solution. Aren’t there any competent services in your intellectual college town? 🙂
Hint: If you decide to get your house painted, either inside or outside, today’s paints don’t take all day to dry like they did in the 1950s.
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Wall to wall in Arizona?? Why? I’m shocked we even have it here in STL.
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I like to walk around barefooted — can’t stand cold floors.
Besides, being partly colorblind, I can always spot scorpions in the carpet from ten feet away.
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Christ Lord, scorpions! I saw a few ants outside today and almost passed out.
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I really like worms, though. Not to eat or anything but I don’t fear them.
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