"Words are not given to a man to conceal his thoughts" -Jose Saramago

Monday, September 11, 2006

I'm goin to hell !!!!

I dont know what it is with women and their exaggerated cleanliness...i really dont...My mother and her sisters are compulsive cleaners....I, on the other hand, am a 'PIG' as described by them...I dont know how many times I have had to hear the 'Go clean your room lecture'....which somehow always popsup when you are really busy...like in the middle of your exams or something.... All I can say in my defence is that I am not Dirty ...just untidy....and there is a difference...the books on my table will be clean but in a heap....now how bad is that??...i often tell my mother and her sister jokingly that when they die, I would probably have to tile the inside of their graves and bury them with a rag and some detergent...cos if they cant clean the grave, their souls may not rest in peace....but its not just my family....its a common trait in all those of the opposite sex.....all of them.....and i have quite a few friends who grumble about the same....a few months ago during my spanish class....we had to write a few sentences on 'mi casa'(my house)...one of the sentences that i added just for a few laughs was 'aparte de mi habitacion, mi casa es limpia'(except for my room, my house is clean).....What a mistake!!!!....thank God there was just one female amongst us students.....the teacher started off..'All you men are muy sucio...my husband is also the same ....he will never make the bed........'....fortunately the males were in a majority and we could just laugh the whole thing off....but the other day....came a big blow...a big blow to my desarreglado attitude.....it came from the altar...yes the altar....it was Fr. Nigel saying the novena mass and his sermon went something like this...' today even the young men need to learn how to do housework....the women are working too, so they need to share the burden too....I've seen marriages break up bcos the husband is too lazy to do anyhting in the house.....if your sons cant cook and clean, then there is nobody to blame but the mothers....'...can you imagine the lecture i got when i returned home???.....I somehow never understand the logic of these people...i mean if you dont want to cook and clean, you get a maid...if you dont want to do the dishes, you get a dishwasher...right???....its so simple....and what about the "marriages break up cos the husbands are too lazy"...i mean have husbands forgotten that there is something called jewellery ???.....but I do know this ...that if cleanliness is next to godliness..then I am going to Hell !!!!

7 comments:

Sumo said...

Tell me abt it!!! I face the same problem at home. My Mom just cant stand it if I leave a book outside overnight. It always has to be inside the cupboard!!!

Everyman said...

Thank God I live alone!!!

As for the jewellery bit Riaan, you presume to buy her jewellery EVERYTIME she gets mad about you not doing housework????

Everyman said...
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Riaan Roving said...

@sumo
My books are always out overnight...i guess im better off than u...

@shainu
not exactly....buy some every ..say 5 months.. and make her feel guilty about it for the months in between....hehehe

Sumo said...

Wat r u gonna do if she is as shameless as u r??

Riaan Roving said...

@sumo...
Then I'll throw in some complimentary flowers in between...

Sumo said...

Aww....that's cho chweeeet!!! Some few hundred girls must swooning over you now, after having read this!!! ;-)