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Nov. 20th, 2005 07:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickEveryone in my family who is old enough to have a college degree has a college degree with the exception of my aunt SJ. Some of us have master's degrees or law degrees or honorary smart-people shit like Phi Beta Kappa membership. As a group, we like to think of ourselves as fairly bright people and we tend to snicker about how dumb other people are. The whole I am superior because I am smarter than you are thing is not one of our more charming traits, but what the hell. We are what we are.
You might think that, with all this fucking brainpower running around, there would be some damn skippy clueful people enjoying... not a flawless life, but a life with far more interesting problems and mistakes than the ones normal people get. Maybe we'd be experiencing difficulty breeding black roses or trouble with our flux capacitor experiments or unexpected side effects accompanying our DIY party drug cocktails. You'd be dead-fucking-wrong. I only wish we had that sort of excitement. Our problems are bizarre, but only in a How the hell can such allegedly smart people be so goddamn dumb? way. Today I went up to the lodge to disconnect the washing machine and blow out the water pipes feeding it so that they don't freeze and break during the winter. I don't want my life more inconveniently wet than it currently is. When I got there, I made with the valves and the blowing-out and so forth... and I noticed that the washing machine had been left half-full of soapy water.
I'd like to point out here that I do not use the washing machine at the lodge. I have my own personal washing machine which is located in my house. The person who left the washing machine at the lodge half-full of soapy water, that person was not me.
However, it's a virtual certainty that the person who DID leave the washing machine at the lodge half-full of soapy water was one of my relatives. One of the smug, smarter (and, therefore, BETTER) than you are people that I am related to thought it would be a good idea to leave the washing machine half-full of soapy water when it failed to drain properly following a wash cycle. And to, y'know, leave it like that WITHOUT TELLING ANYONE in sort of a pretending it didn't happen fashion, using the wildly popular (among four-year-olds worldwide and in my family o' smart people) reasoning that if you don't admit to having done it, it didn't happen.
ARGH! ARGH! ARGH! FUCKING WANKERS!! Look. You cannot go about acting like you're smarter than other people and better than other people and ALSO stealthily leave washing machines half-full of soapy water so that you can make a clean getaway and leave your damn mess for someone else to clean up. Reasonably intelligent people do not abandon washing machines in distress. They TELL SOMEONE IN CHARGE about the washing machine in distress so that it may receive medical attention or be schlepped to the nearest drop-box for bulk disposal. Whoever did this to the poor washing machine is going to have some serious smackdown coming when I find out who it was.
EDIT: I originally posted this with a typo (Kppa for Kappa) because half the keys on my laptop stick (there's a lot of cat hair in the keyboard) and because I don't use spellcheck. The spelling you see is the spelling I can do, which is why there are sometimes mistakes. At any rate, my brother Joe called me on the phone specifically to tell me that there was a typo on my LJ entry, which he thought was ironic and funny. He asked if it was intentional or not. It was not intentional. I was not being ironic and funny. I was being careless and human. I do that sometimes.
You might think that, with all this fucking brainpower running around, there would be some damn skippy clueful people enjoying... not a flawless life, but a life with far more interesting problems and mistakes than the ones normal people get. Maybe we'd be experiencing difficulty breeding black roses or trouble with our flux capacitor experiments or unexpected side effects accompanying our DIY party drug cocktails. You'd be dead-fucking-wrong. I only wish we had that sort of excitement. Our problems are bizarre, but only in a How the hell can such allegedly smart people be so goddamn dumb? way. Today I went up to the lodge to disconnect the washing machine and blow out the water pipes feeding it so that they don't freeze and break during the winter. I don't want my life more inconveniently wet than it currently is. When I got there, I made with the valves and the blowing-out and so forth... and I noticed that the washing machine had been left half-full of soapy water.
I'd like to point out here that I do not use the washing machine at the lodge. I have my own personal washing machine which is located in my house. The person who left the washing machine at the lodge half-full of soapy water, that person was not me.
However, it's a virtual certainty that the person who DID leave the washing machine at the lodge half-full of soapy water was one of my relatives. One of the smug, smarter (and, therefore, BETTER) than you are people that I am related to thought it would be a good idea to leave the washing machine half-full of soapy water when it failed to drain properly following a wash cycle. And to, y'know, leave it like that WITHOUT TELLING ANYONE in sort of a pretending it didn't happen fashion, using the wildly popular (among four-year-olds worldwide and in my family o' smart people) reasoning that if you don't admit to having done it, it didn't happen.
ARGH! ARGH! ARGH! FUCKING WANKERS!! Look. You cannot go about acting like you're smarter than other people and better than other people and ALSO stealthily leave washing machines half-full of soapy water so that you can make a clean getaway and leave your damn mess for someone else to clean up. Reasonably intelligent people do not abandon washing machines in distress. They TELL SOMEONE IN CHARGE about the washing machine in distress so that it may receive medical attention or be schlepped to the nearest drop-box for bulk disposal. Whoever did this to the poor washing machine is going to have some serious smackdown coming when I find out who it was.
EDIT: I originally posted this with a typo (Kppa for Kappa) because half the keys on my laptop stick (there's a lot of cat hair in the keyboard) and because I don't use spellcheck. The spelling you see is the spelling I can do, which is why there are sometimes mistakes. At any rate, my brother Joe called me on the phone specifically to tell me that there was a typo on my LJ entry, which he thought was ironic and funny. He asked if it was intentional or not. It was not intentional. I was not being ironic and funny. I was being careless and human. I do that sometimes.
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Washing Machine
Date: 2005-11-21 11:03 pm (UTC)Said washing machine was left in the half drained condition by you brother Roy (me) at the express order of our Father. The idea here is that I was in the process of emptying the machine of water by hand, when his royalness showed up and told me to just leave it as it was. Not to move it, not to figure out what was wrong (I expect it needs a belt) and that nobody really needed a washing machine at the lodge anyway.
I understand how we both get the shit when certain male adults forget what they did or were supposed to do or just had a rotten day. Jessica, I am sorry he forgot to tell you about the machine. I am certain it was nasty to empty and or move. I did offer to move the machine out of the lodge and set mine in its place. I got crap for that. Next time I'll let you know the story as you are the person now holding the crap end of the stick when things need done.