Do you have a special place in your home? A job that no one else can do, that is just yours alone? Do you ever feel that you are simply more capable than most other people? Are you the one person that holds everything together in your home? Yet do you feel under appreciated for all that you offer to the people you live with? Sometimes, I do.
There are things in this home that no one else will do. I have a feeling that certain other individuals (who shall remain unnamed because I am feeling generous today) who reside in this home feel that they are in fact, not equipped to do this job, but I beg to differ. Still, I think that if they did decide to attempt this important job (that could even be construed as part of the very foundation of our everyday life) I might feel somehow...diminished in my usefulness. At least that is how they must think I would feel. Because they certainly never attempt to do this job that has somehow, through some unspoken agreement, become MY job.
I am talking about changing the toilet paper roll. No one else in this house, young OR old, seems to be able to do this. Maybe it is something of a curse that comes with being the only female in a house full of males. All I know is that even though they don't need to use the toilet paper as often as I do, they do, in fact use it. This has been made clear on numerous occasions as evidenced by a frequent lack of any TP left on the roll after the use of the facilities by the aforementioned males in the household.
Now the question...Are they physically incapable? No. Well, the youngest one might be...but since he is not potty trained as of yet, I will let him off the hook. Our five year old changed the TP roll by himself once, when he was only four. He even managed to get the little springy mechanism that holds the roll in place securely installed in its proper fitting. He did, however, put the TP roll on backwards. (I am a stickler about the paper being to the front, and not backwards. That is another post all together.) I didn't say anything to him because I was so grateful that he changed the roll, but I did turn it around so it was going in the right direction. Perhaps he noticed the change and felt somehow inadequate at doing the job. I can never be sure, but he has not changed the roll since.
My husband doesn't change the roll either, but at least he is usually courteous enough to set a new roll of TP on the back of the toilet when he uses up the other roll. This saves me from noticing too late the lack of TP and having to lean across the bathroom to find a new roll (I have learned to keep it within reach). I suppose I should be thankful that my boys are a bit messy when peeing, which usually means that I have to clean off the toilet seat every time I need to use the bathroom (even though they pee with the seat up...don't ask me how they still manage to get pee on the seat every time). Because of this, I am usually aware right off the bat as to how much TP is left on the roll. I have also switched to the double rolls of TP...which means I only have to change it half as often as I used to.
So do you have a chore that is only yours to do because no one else in your home will stoop to doing it? Please, feel free to share it with me and make me feel better.
There are things in this home that no one else will do. I have a feeling that certain other individuals (who shall remain unnamed because I am feeling generous today) who reside in this home feel that they are in fact, not equipped to do this job, but I beg to differ. Still, I think that if they did decide to attempt this important job (that could even be construed as part of the very foundation of our everyday life) I might feel somehow...diminished in my usefulness. At least that is how they must think I would feel. Because they certainly never attempt to do this job that has somehow, through some unspoken agreement, become MY job.
I am talking about changing the toilet paper roll. No one else in this house, young OR old, seems to be able to do this. Maybe it is something of a curse that comes with being the only female in a house full of males. All I know is that even though they don't need to use the toilet paper as often as I do, they do, in fact use it. This has been made clear on numerous occasions as evidenced by a frequent lack of any TP left on the roll after the use of the facilities by the aforementioned males in the household.
Now the question...Are they physically incapable? No. Well, the youngest one might be...but since he is not potty trained as of yet, I will let him off the hook. Our five year old changed the TP roll by himself once, when he was only four. He even managed to get the little springy mechanism that holds the roll in place securely installed in its proper fitting. He did, however, put the TP roll on backwards. (I am a stickler about the paper being to the front, and not backwards. That is another post all together.) I didn't say anything to him because I was so grateful that he changed the roll, but I did turn it around so it was going in the right direction. Perhaps he noticed the change and felt somehow inadequate at doing the job. I can never be sure, but he has not changed the roll since.
My husband doesn't change the roll either, but at least he is usually courteous enough to set a new roll of TP on the back of the toilet when he uses up the other roll. This saves me from noticing too late the lack of TP and having to lean across the bathroom to find a new roll (I have learned to keep it within reach). I suppose I should be thankful that my boys are a bit messy when peeing, which usually means that I have to clean off the toilet seat every time I need to use the bathroom (even though they pee with the seat up...don't ask me how they still manage to get pee on the seat every time). Because of this, I am usually aware right off the bat as to how much TP is left on the roll. I have also switched to the double rolls of TP...which means I only have to change it half as often as I used to.
So do you have a chore that is only yours to do because no one else in your home will stoop to doing it? Please, feel free to share it with me and make me feel better.
3 comments:
I recently read a newspaper article about a couple that were trying to save the environment so they gave up toilet paper. I think D in his subtle ways is trying to give you a hint. You need to take it and run with it (the hint, not the toilet paper).
My job and mine alone is loading the dishwasher. Mostly mine by choice though. My hubby does it wrong and doesn't utilize the space. I like my bowls to face a certain way so water doesn't collect, I like the forks sticking up so they don't get caught in the bottom, and the glasses fit a certain way and that's the way I want them to be. It's very satisfying to hear the hum of the dishwasher and know that they've been done correctly. :)
If they don't change the tp roll then they can leave the empties all around the bathroom floor so that they are available for what ever future craft project they might come up with.
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