Sunday, July 10, 2011

It's not clean until it's in red marker

Note: I am not to be trusted with the kitchen. 

This is the cleaning schedule. It is posted on the refrigerator. It was not always typed - this developed after several weeks of Post-Its reminding Norm (Normal Roommate) and I to take out the trash every Monday. After it had already been done. 

The picture above is slightly misleading in that I appear to be caught up on my cleaning duties, when usually I am the big, gaping hole in the otherwise orderly schedule. Other things to note:

1. The schedule is paced for cleaning every other week. There are rarely guests and I am never home. "Cleaning" is really "Dirt Plays Hide and Seek."

2. The same roommate who typed the schedule put herself on kitchen duty every time. And yet there is an asterisk, related to nothing, at the bottom reminding all of us to mop the kitchen floor. If no one else lived here, I think she would still write Post-Its to herself. 

3. The last few times I cleaned, I X-ed out the box in pen. You will notice that all the boxes have been re-done in red marker. 

Which is worse - that I may not have cleaned well enough to earn red-marker status, or that I am incapable of checking off boxes correctly?

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