I step out of the shower while SharkBoy is digging into his ears with a Q-tip. I daintily close the shower curtain and smile.
“So we don’t have to look at the grime on the floor of the tub?” He asks.
True, our cleaning has been lax this week in a non-air conditioned apartment and the temperature rising well over 29C, but it will get done some time.
“I keep forgetting you were raised in a family with only one other sibling,” I say, with a sigh and a condescending tone that suggest he missed so much without a gaggle of Italian/Irish kids running around a home. “At our house, the parents had 5 kids to target for cleaning chores. The beauty of so many brother (and sister) is that there was always someone else to clean up. Sure Mom and Dad might get you to do some menial cleaning but if you knew how to avoid being in the parent’s chore sights, you could avoid cleaning for months.”
“Didn’t you mention you grew up with a maid?”
“…”
“I won’t be your maid,” SharkBoy says and makes a gun out of his forefinger and thumb. Ska-doosh!
5 thoughts on “Get Mikey To Do It”
Ouch. 🙂
what is the tiny smiley face that appears on the right side of the screen just beside the Robot Chatter? There were 4 of us (kids) at home and we had cleaning chores, although my oldest brother was never home and he never did his.
Sharkboy would be so cute in a maid’s outfit.
since i fucked up my knee, i learned that you can clean a bathtub very well with any cleanser and a mop. scum also comes off tiles easily with the mop, so you have no need to get on your hands and knees (well…) and scrub at all. for what it’s worth, baking soda mixed with liquid dish soap is easy on your eyes and throat and cleans a tub thoroughly, and washing soda and water destroys mildew.
So when you gonna adopt a slave… err I mean… a wonderful little kid? hee hee