You have got to be kidding me

[pegkerr]

This "tip" was included with a series of e-mail tips I received from the Dollar Stretcher today:

I save time and energy with a little housecleaning trick I learned from a friend. If you've ever scrubbed the sticky goo from the top of your refrigerator, you understand how cooking oil and smoke can mix with dust and make a mess. Now I just cover the top of the fridge with a layer of clear plastic wrap. When it gets dirty, I peel it off and throw it away, and then I replace it with a new layer. Whenever I can take short cuts and eliminate even a small portion of housecleaning, I'm happy.

Ordinarily, I like the tips I get with Dollar Stretcher, but I'll have to admit that when I read this, I thought, Lady, what kind of stuff are you smoking? Do you expect me to care what the top of my refrigerator looks like? Ever???

Jeez. Get a life. One that doesn't involve worrying about the tops of refrigerators.

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

This is exactly what I thought. My cousin's husband blew up at her early in their marriage because she was such a half-assed housekeeper (this is a second cousin who's nearly 70, so expectations were somewhat different), and his example was that it looked to him as though she had not wiped off the top of the fridge in the six months they'd been married. She silently marched him into the kitchen, held her hand out at her own line of sight at 5'2", then reached up to indicate his at 6'4", then handed him a rag. He never said another word about it.

[fancythat2.livejournal.com]

Good for her!

And why do the short girls ALWAYS get the tall men?? Listen shorty, leave the tall ones for the rest of us, YOU take the short men!

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Why is it that I've never heard this directed at the tall men who are in relationships with short women? Just to the women.

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

Because human relationships, like all mammals, are dictated by female choice.

(Only partly snarky, here. Female choice gets so underrated that I like to make competing overrating claims.)

[trinker.livejournal.com]

I'd like to thing that human relationships are more about mutual choice (at least in the optimal circumstances), but I see your point.

Just smarting from the many rounds of yelling at that I've gotten when some tall woman perceives me to be "stealing" from her prospective pool.

At one point, all the men I'd dated were in the 6' range, but since then my partners' heights have ranged from 4'11" to 6'4" (to my 5'2").

[fancythat2.livejournal.com]

I dunno, it's a valid point. Maybe it's because we perceive the woman as in control with regard to starting new relationships?

Let me amend:

And why do the tall men ALWAYS pick the short women?? Listen buster, leave the short women alone they have all the short men to pick from!

Incidentally, my grandpa was tall and he picked my short grandma to marry. My short cousin picked a tall man for her husband too. Go figure. :-)

[trinker.livejournal.com]

*grin*

Thanks. Incidentally, the man I'm about to marry (who is 6'3"), when he was writing out a list of "dream characteristics" for his concept of an ideal mate, did have "tall" written down. I'm not sure how I fit that qualification, at 5'2". ;) (And I'd once vowed not to be involved with anyone over 12" taller than me.)

Mysterious, I tell you.

[fancythat2.livejournal.com]

I vowed not to be involved with a guy that I look eyeball to eyeball with or one that I can peer over. :-)

They do seem to run a little to the short side round here. Must be the lack of sunshine stunting guy growth. The girls seem to get taller though. Someone should do a study. :-)

because it gives our kids a fighting chance

[(Anonymous)]

I am 5'2. Husband is 6'2. Our daughter is in the 95% for her height. I am thrilled. At her age, I was in the 10%. Short sucks. People acquaint it with incapable and young. My daughter will most certainly be 5'6 or taller. Thanks to the husband.

Re: because it gives our kids a fighting chance

[fancythat2.livejournal.com]

It's funny but no one ever mistook my Grandma or my cousin (both 5'0) for incapable. I'm not sure about the seeming too young part, I'd guess no. They both had/have a power about them that stood/stands no nonsense.

And 5'6 is no picnic either. Sure I can reach almost everything I want but I can't find a fella about 6'0 tall to date 'cause they all hooked up with the teeny girls. :-)