and how YOU define irony?
so…Erika has this housekeeping habit of putting things at the bottom of the stairs that need to go up. I had this habit of not seeing them and walking right by them.
HAD.
After having a discussion about keeping up my side of the housekeeping responsiblities, I now pick up everything on the steps. I even walk back up the steps if she puts something there while I’m upstairs and I’m on my way down.
so…this morning, an auto insurance agent calls. Erika starts looking for the insurance paperwork and then asks me if I had seen it. “If it was in the stack of papers on the stairs, it’s in your office.”
She’s created too perfect of a husband 
August 20th, 2004 at 9:00 am
So that’s what the stuff at the bottom of the stairs means. Duly noted.
August 20th, 2004 at 9:05 am
yep…doing my job to keep the men of the world informed…
August 20th, 2004 at 9:31 am
Thanks!
Now if only we had stairs. My wife likes to leave it in front of my favorite appliance, the TV.
August 20th, 2004 at 10:22 am
*whipcrack*
August 23rd, 2004 at 1:09 pm
OH MY GOD!!! I cannot believe she still does this. I’m not actually sure if she started this or I did…but it was definitely a well-worn tradition in our household oh-so-many years ago. But that was back in the day of the liberty bell lamp. She doesn’t still have that does she? Throw it out when she’s not looking if she does!
August 23rd, 2004 at 3:28 pm
Duh! of course that’s what things at the bottom of the stairs are doing. Its not like we can be bothered to take them up ourselves.
August 23rd, 2004 at 4:14 pm
Em - my dad did it my entire life. We’d get ready for school in the morning and he’d give us shit for something we put on the stairs the day before. He’d get all, “It’s been there for two days” on us, and when we’d reply, “Dad, we just put it there yesterday,” he’d say, “Exactly! Two days - yesterday and today!”
*heh*
August 24th, 2004 at 5:48 pm
what a minute…are you trying to tell me that men are “trainable”???
holy cow…there is hope after all!