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Running
On Empty
I’ve
been running on empty a lot, lately. Oh,
I don’t mean empty of energy – I still have plenty
of steam left in me. I mean empty
rolls of toilet paper, tissue boxes, soap dispensers,
milk containers – get the picture?
We are five relatively capable people living in the
house. Any one of us has the ability
to change a roll of toilet paper, open a new box of
tissues, refill a soap dispenser (well at least two or
three of us have that ability), and open new milk
containers. So my question is – why
always me?!
Let’s take the toilet paper for example. I
usually try to have one or two extra rolls of toilet
paper handy, close to the commodes in each of our three
bathrooms – so that’s one roll in use and two spares
whenever I replace an empty roll. Still, when I’m in
need of some toilet paper and turn to see an empty
cardboard tube, or one that has one square of toilet
paper left on it, I usually find that the two spares
have also dwindled into none!
No problem! I always keep a box of
tissues handy – I’ll just reach for those…ACK!
That’s empty, too!
“Can someone bring me some toilet paper? Bring
three rolls, please!”
The mystery in all this is that it’s never ANYONE who
finished the toilet paper or the box of tissues.
“Who finished the toilet paper and didn’t replace
it?” I demand.
“Not me!” all chime in at once. “There was still
some left when I used it!”
That would explain the one remaining square.
And speaking of one remaining – let me see a
show of hands from all you parents out there.
How often do you grab the milk container out of
the fridge to find it contains exactly three drops of
milk? Three measly drops of milk –
not even enough to color your coffee!
“Who finished the milk and put it back in the
fridge?” I bellow.
“Not me!” all chime in at once. “There was still
some left when I used it!”
Do you see a pattern forming here?
Okay, enough complaining! After all,
not everything in the house is always empty.
Take, for example, the laundry hamper. The
only time that the laundry hamper is empty is in those
few hours between my sorting out the loads and my kids
coming home from school. They fill
that baby up in a flash! I’m still
trying to figure out how I can do three or four loads of
laundry on Friday and have an overflowing hamper on
Saturday evening. It’s physically
impossible, isn’t it?
Let’s not forget how full the playroom floor is most
of the time. It still amazes me how
the room can be totally clean one minute and have toys,
books, coloring pencils, and remote controls strewn in
every direction the next. It’s
almost like the minute kids enter a playroom some sort
of explosion occurs that scatters objects to every
available spot on the floor.
The table in my den is also a mystery. I
think that a strong magnetic field exists between the
table’s surface and the kids’ DVD cases, books, and
magazines. On cleaning day, the kids
reluctantly clear the table top and dust it, but
somehow, within the next 24 hours, the clutter is back.
“Who put all this stuff back on the den table?”
“Not me!” all chime in at once.
I’ve given this some thought and my conclusion is
this: It must be some sort of cosmic
equilibrium thing. For every empty
item in a home there must exist a full one otherwise the
world as we know it will cease to exist!
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 Lucie
Bouchard Antoniazzi chose to stay home fulltime with her
three children after working as a telecommunications
engineer for twelve years.
When her youngest child started school in 2002,
she decided that domestic engineering wasn’t enough and
pursued her second passion – writing.
Lucie now works from home as a freelance writer, editor, and
web designer. You can find out more about her many
projects by visiting her web site at www.luciebouchardantoniazzi.com.
Lucie
lives with her husband and their three children in
Laval
,
Quebec
,
Canada
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