you totally wish you lived in a house full of academics
Lately around here:
Him: Um, why did you leave the water running?
Her: What?
Him: The water you turned on five minutes ago.
Her: The water is running?
15 minutes after breakfast was served.
Her: Honey, did you know the stove is still on?
Him: Um. No.
Her: Good morning!
Him: Did you know you baked the new Le Creuset pan with all the labels still on it?
Her: I did not.
Him: Yes. Yes, you did. I was up until midnight scrubbing that off.
Le sigh.
Comments
So familiar...
Posted by: steve | January 26, 2008 1:57 PM
Yesterday, our conversation went like this:
"Donald Sutherland is Kiefer Sutherland's DAD?"
Posted by: Scott | January 26, 2008 2:12 PM
Oh my yes. I would hate to be the bearer of bad news to your partner, but academic wives often grow more wool-gathery rather than less as they move on in their careers. While it's been a while since I baked a label onto a pan, it's also been a while since I closed a cabinet door in the kitchen if I'm working on a project.
Posted by: bridgett | January 28, 2008 7:12 AM
It's funny that you mention that, Bridgett -- he is historically a leaver-open of cabinet doors. Remember the scene in The Muppets Take Manhattan where they all decide to bunk in lockers and are hanging out of them socializing? I go in the kitchen after he's cooked and it looks like Invisible Muppet Locker Social.
But you worry me when you say I'll only get worse, because I am terrible now, and positively awful when working on a big project like a diss. And the sad fact of the matter is that I'm pretty sure you're right.
Posted by: Krista | January 28, 2008 7:26 AM
Similar situations happen at my home, only Him = my cat.
I'm always: Mr. Jones, did you really need to knock that plant off the table? And Jones is always: Meow.
Or Jones will say: MEEEOOOOOWWWW! And I'll have to be: But I just had the faucet on 2 minutes ago! If you were thirsty, why didn't you drink then?
So, it could be worse.
Posted by: shannon | January 28, 2008 4:22 PM