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Proof That I Married The Right Woman
For months, my shampoo has been mislocated.
Which is to say that we mostly take baths in La Casa McJuddMetz, and the shampoo is on the upper shelf at shower height. So whenever I want to wash my hair, I have to reach way up to grab it, risking tilting it onto my face.
The conditioner, however, is on the left-hand side at bath level, easily accessible.
This is a little annoyance, but it’s also constant. Every morning, whoops, reaching up for the shampoo again. And yet it’s never quite bad enough to bellow, “GINI! GET IN HERE! YOU’RE FUCKING UP MY BATH MOJO!” Nor is it so annoying that I would remember to pull Gini aside an hour later, calling a bathroom meeting to go, “Look. We need to talk about the shampoo incidents I’ve been having.” But apparently Gini likes it there.
So every morning: damn. Damn. Damn. Damn. It’s like being a bathtub amnesiac, vexed by the same poor product placement every morning. It’s like my memory only works when my hair is wet.
So last night, Gini and I were confessing silly annoyances, and she said, “Oh, WAIT!” Then she ran into the bathroom.
“Can we move the damn shampoo?” she asked. “Where I don’t have to reach up for it every fucking morning?”
“Seriously?” I asked, clasping her hands in joy. “I thought you liked it up there!”
“No!” she said, her face suffused with happiness. “This shit is terrible! Let’s move the shampoo!”
And together, we switched shampoo and conditioner, never feeling closer in our twelve years of marriage, realizing that yes, we’ve made the right choice and it must have been one of those bastard houseguests who fucked up our bathroom mojo.
Then we cuddled. And this morning, my bath was awesome.
Cross-posted from Ferrett's Real Blog.
This entry has also been posted at http://theferrett.dreamwidth.org/210507.html. You can comment here, or comment there; makes no never-mind by me.
Tags: gini, terrible quirks of the ferrett
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| | . . . I almost spit out the water I was drinking at "bastard houseguests." Just struck me funny.
BUT YES. I am so glad that it was just random fuckery, and not secretly dueling bathroom preferences.
Nothing fosters ill-will like bathroom resentment. Now that we have separate bathrooms, the husband and I are soooooo much happier. ![[User Picture]](http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/99678820/208448) | | From: |  aiela |
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| Date: | May 8th, 2012 03:10 pm (UTC) |
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Yeah, I ws just coming in here to say that it makes me glad my husband and I don't share shampoo. He can put his where he likes it, and mine is at the opposite of the tub.
Now, I do share shampoo with the 17 year old, but since I pay for it, it's going where *I* want it. ;) A friend of mine swears that separate bathrooms are the key to a happy marriage. I haven't had the opportunity to test the theory, and I'm unlikely to in the foreseeable future, but it's intriguing. It depends strongly, I think, if either of you are people who take up a lot of the bathroom in terms of time or space. My husband and I are reeeeally not a good match in that regard. We have separate beds, too, which makes people boggle, but hey, it's kept us from murdering each other over who snores, who kicks, who steals the covers, and who twitches constantly. And who bites, but that last probably isn't an issue for anyone who doesn't live with me. Being in bed with him is like being in bed with a wild pony. Being in bed with me is like being in bed with a cranky wolverine. Not a good match. Neither of us is a major bathroom hog with regards to "stuff". But our routines seem to inevitably be timed EXACTLY THE SAME which means that we almost always seem to be in each other's way. First thing in the morning before blood sugar/caffeine this is distinctly suboptimal. I share a bathtub with the teenagers; we're having a good day if they don't use my razor ;)
But this is sweet. My partner and I run into this sort of thing sometimes... both of us thinking we're being considerate to the other, with neither of us actually wanting the thing itself. This happens most commonly for us around getting ready to leave... I'll see him looking busy on his computer, so instead of saying I'm ready (nagging) I'll simply busy myself with small things on my computer, and he'll see me looking busy on my computer, so he'll busy himself on his... Nowadays I work to tell him that I'm not rushing him but that I'm interruptable to leave at any point. My wife and I do that. "I was waiting for you!"
![[User Picture]](http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/81974414/524108) | | From: | teaa |
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| Date: | May 8th, 2012 07:23 pm (UTC) |
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The message in my family, adopted from an ex's family is, "I declare ready." It means you're ready to walk out the door, shoes on, bag and coat ready. And we've adopted it for use at parties or browsing stores or whatever. It's the short version of, "I'm not impatient to leave, but I'm ready whenever you are." One of the most useful things I've found, I picked up from my daughter's first grade teacher; If one of us is chatting with someone else or dealing with something at an event the other comes up and puts our hand on the chatter's shoulder. It means "I need to talk to you, but, it's not urgent, finish what you're doing." It goes for the kiddo, too.
![[User Picture]](http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/116143930/1271016) | | From: |  heldc |
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| Date: | May 9th, 2012 04:45 am (UTC) |
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We say "I'm ready whenever". I accidentally ran across this entry via a friend's LJ. It's a gray gloomy day in MA today, and the smile this brought me was sorely needed. Thank you. 1) Good to know I'm not the only one who needs "confessing silly annoyances" time.
2) I am so going to start using the term "bathroom mojo."
-Alex
this is probably the most uncreative comment ever,but i just wanted to say i loved reading this! ![[User Picture]](http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/94870457/8134480) | | | Completely Off Topic | (Link) |
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But this client reads my facebook and blog and I knew you'd find it funny.
Actual conversation I had online with a client today (who is a 24 year old dude who had parents give him money to start up a freelance middleman company)
Started out with him saying that he had a client who might need a philosophy text ghostwritten and asked if I could do it. I said that I had majored in post structuralism and could do it no problem.
Client: Do you have any samples you can send?
Me: No. That was in college and my essays are all on floppy disk.
Client: What's a floppy disk?
Me: It was a storage device a little bit larger than a DVD.
Client: How much storage did it have.
Me: Around 20k I think.
Client: How did you download music to it? ![[User Picture]](http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/23481387/921535) | | From: | denyer |
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| Date: | May 8th, 2012 05:27 pm (UTC) |
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MIDI and tracker files FTW. ![[User Picture]](http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/114771787/9289022) | | | Re: Completely Off Topic | (Link) |
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HA HA HA HA HA | | | Re: Completely Off Topic | (Link) |
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Right??? | | | Re: Completely Off Topic | (Link) |
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right! | | | Re: Completely Off Topic | (Link) |
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I wish I could have turned this into a post on my blog - but, you know, not good to make fun of clients on your blog if they read your blog. ![[User Picture]](http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/113304510/9289022) | | | Re: Completely Off Topic | (Link) |
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well yeah :( This is hilarious goodness that made me chuckle. Chez moi, there is an excellent tiled area behind the taps on which ALL bath-type things live. Planned when we rebuilt the bathroom, to avoid "not enough room" annoyance. | | From: | aiela |
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| Date: | May 8th, 2012 05:55 pm (UTC) |
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I stayed at a resort recently that had a tiled area like that at the opposite end of the tub from the taps, and it was such a genius idea I couldn't believe I'd never seen anything like that before. Why does the conditioner belong on top? After rinsing out the shampoo in a shower, the conditioner is right there.
but the shampoo is hard to reach in a shower because it's on the bottom shelf In my head, he gets in the bath, lathers the shampoo while relaxing in the bath, then stands up to rinse out the shampoo under the shower head and uses conditioner while standing. ...why in the world do you take BATHS every day? Doesn't that kind of take forever, and not get you as clean as a shower? Also, you shouldn't be shampooing your hair every day anyway. :p The conditioner is better placed! Yeah, this is bizarre to me too. It's such a waste of time/ water. ... do you think a shower uses less water? That's sort of amusing. I looked this up for fun and it uses less water if It's less than 8-10 minutes with a low flow shower head. Otherwise a bath uses less. ![[User Picture]](http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/83166215/721335) | | From: | reynai |
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| Date: | May 8th, 2012 10:54 pm (UTC) |
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You take baths every day if you enjoy baths, I would presume. I'd take baths more often than showers, except I have a skin condition that dislikes baths, so I alas cannot bask in hot water as much as I'd like. I moved out of my parent's place a few years ago, and one thing I sorely miss is the bath each day. I have never really adapted to showers, because my parents' place and now my own flat both have pretty miserable water pressure that makes getting an acceptable water temperature to be a magic I have not truly mastered.
I didn't realise I was missing baths so much until I took a trip, lay down in the bath, and went "Oh." as all of the muscles in my back unknotted in a single go.
Unfortunately, I still don't have a bath. And still miss it terribly. :( It takes a while to fill it up... I suppose I can understand daily evening baths, but less so morning ones, when you want to get up and out! And I still feel like when you take a bath, you need a shower afterward anyway to actually clean you. I want to know more about you daily bath-people and how you manage it. On the bright side, at least you know now! | | From: | heldc |
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| Date: | May 9th, 2012 04:44 am (UTC) |
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*tilts head* Why didn't you just leave it where you wanted it when you were done and see if it got moved? or buy 2 and keep one in both places? it's just shampoo I was thinking that. But I think it depends how much you care where the shampoo is. With shampoo, I really don't care: it doesn't have a "place", I just put it down wherever is most convenient when I'm done with it. So I assume (probably correctly) that the person I'm living with is the same, and put it wherever. (Come to think of it, there probably _should_ be a place.)
But for other things, if I do care, I do tend to assume that where I found something is its "place", or where someone else wanted it, and not want to unilaterily change that. Which leads to mistakes like this, if I don't make a conscious effort to ask often enough "hang on, maybe I should check what she thinks about this" :) This story gives me a happy. :D
No big deep thing to add, just that it made me smile. ![[User Picture]](http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/31803270/604809) | | From: | mouser |
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| Date: | May 9th, 2012 02:05 pm (UTC) |
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The inner mad social scientist in me now wants to do things like reverse the way the toilet paper hangs if I ever help people move in together...
I think I have a crush on your marrige. I was trying to figure out wether it was you I was crushing on or Gini, but I think it's your marrige. This is a perfect example of the little things that keep every day wonderful in a happy long term marraige.
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