More evidence that I'm really a man. Here's what I left in the comments:
Hmmm.Carpet has cat hair dustballs stacked an inch high in the corner. Check.
Kitchen floor looks like the remains of an archaeological trench after a rainstorm. Check.
Dirty laundry piled on bedroom floor. Check.
Wall of: computer and peripherals, laser printer, tv, dvd player. Check.
Books lying all over the place. Check.
Bed unmade. Check.
Unused yet working computer taking up space in bedroom. Check.
Cardboard boxes from move a year and a half ago, contents still inside, stacked against walls, serving as "temporary" furniture for spare tv. Check.
Refrigerator contains: new carton of coffee cream, three-quarters of a stick of butter, some oranges, half a loaf of bread, and a row of "Peeps" Easter candy from last year. Check.
Verdict: I'm really a man.
Well. I did by a new scent thing for the plug-in air freshener. But really, all the men I have known have not only not been slobs, they have been almost fanatically neat. Picking up fresh crumbs off the carpet with their fingers neat. Stacking things in anal little piles everywhere neat. It's probably a good thing though. If I met a man like me our house would probably end up on the news as one of those homes that the health department people had to clean out with a backhoe.
Posted by Andrea Harris at April 20, 2003 11:00 PMFanatically neat I am not, and my fridge is only slightly better stocked than yours - but I have boxes of books and whatnot still unpacked from the 1996 move.
And I did mop the kitchen floor yesterday.
Posted by: CGHill at April 21, 2003 at 08:25 AMChaz, you can mop yours? I have to rake mine.
And I'm married.
(If my wife sees this I am so dead.)
Posted by: Kevin McGehee at April 21, 2003 at 10:29 AMWhat is this mop you speak of?
My husband cleans the bathroom because I won't. He also folds the clothes because we would live out of baskets if didn't.
I haven't made the bed in over a week.
You can't see the bedroom floor due to all the books, comic books and action figures laying about.
I had the huge entertainment center, media set up, video games and kick ass computer BEFORE he moved in.
Let's go join that men's club, shall we?
Posted by: michele at April 21, 2003 at 11:01 AMGood God, you folks are all describing my apartment (aka "Augean Stables West.")
The last time I moved, I discovered boxes that I hadn't unpacked from the previous move. Seven years previously. Top that.
Posted by: Michelle Dulak at April 21, 2003 at 12:10 PM