Being Boring
June 4th, 2006
Adam got a labelmaker this weekend, which sent him into a labeling frenzy. EVERYTHING has a label now, from the bathroom supplies to the entire garage, right down to every single teeny nail in his toolbox, with a label that neatly identifies it as a “nail,” along with whatever specification. He tried to label the dog, but thankfully, she was too quick. When I woke up this morning, my forehead was neatly labeled “grumpy.”
Nice.
I don’t normally make coffee at home – I’m lazy, too tired most mornings and frankly, I make shitty coffee. Coffee also requires milk, which is generally gross, except for limited use in mudslides and coffee, and I can never drink enough to justify a half-gallon, or even a quart. I’d made a single, bleary-eyed pot of coffee the morning we left for vacation, then hastily tucked the coffee pot behind the drying rack of pans before we left the morning of our ill-fated vacation, in an attempt to restore order. Today, while cleaning, I unearthed it, and this is precisely what I found:
I don’t know what the schmutz is. I know. GROSS.
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6 Comments Add your own
1. jes | June 4th, 2006 at 10:37 pm
Ha, ha! Apparently tucking it away behind the pans didn’t hide it from EVERYONE’S view.
2. Yez | June 5th, 2006 at 2:26 am
nnnnnnNGAH!!
He must have EXHAUSTED himself, digging that pot out from behind everything and then reconstructing the scene in Taurean perfection once he’d performed his crucial task.
This is similar to Empty Ritz Cracker Boxes strategically placed to be encumbrances in MY habitual path. Gawd forbid anyone else should write a shopping list. (Or clean a coffee pot.)
Your assignment: tonight, a label applied to his forehead: PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE ]:>
3. Claire | June 5th, 2006 at 8:45 am
I love it.
Adam is genius. Though Yez is certainly spot-on with the Passive Aggressive label.
Whatever he gets for this, he’ll have it coming.
4. Whinger | June 5th, 2006 at 9:40 am
Ahahahaha! Adam’s FUNNY.
5. winterwheat | June 5th, 2006 at 9:46 am
Adam’s a hoot. I love the way there’s no punctuation and everything is in lower case letters, like a simple deadpan vocal delivery:
mold
That’s a slick label maker. Remember those label makers from the 70s that looked like the Starship Enterprise and pressed white letters into stiff, sharp, plastic adhesive strips? At the time, those were slick too.
Do you suppose they make label makers in Braille?
6. -R- | June 5th, 2006 at 10:17 am
I love that he labeled it instead of cleaning it. Definitely make the label Yez suggested!
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