OT: Single Guys and RA

[Guest guest]

Since I was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis last July and not

able to work my girlfriend (of seven years) told me I have to care of

my own place. We have seperate households and she used to come over

once or twice a week to help me with the household choirs. Actually

help is a stretch, she took care of all of it. Now she thinks it

would be " good " for me to do it myself. This is just how women think,

all of a sudden it would be " good " for me to do my own housework.

It's cruel and unusal punishment, I have a serious medical condition,

and I " thought " it was my job to take care of that, and nothing else.

I dropped hints, bought gifts, waited and waited until it was

apparent she is not going to budge on what's " good " for me. She has

her own disability issues so I " thought " she would be a little more

understanding, you would think! So anyway, I thought I would share

some of the things she has pointed out and the tips I have discovered

for the guys who may find themselves in a simular situation.

There is an abudance of hot and cold running water under the place

where you throw all the dirty dishes!

Evidently there is a bag inside of a vacuum cleaner that has to be

changed or emptied periodically or it doesn't work, who knew!

The extra little red light on the coffee maker is not for making

extra strong coffee, it cleans the machine!

You can throw away ALL the trash in the dumpster everyday because

those guys come around on some kind of schedule so you don't have to

collect it!

All Purpose Tide is not bubble bath.

Those dates on food products have absolutely nothing to do with

anyone's birthday.

Larger laundry hampers do not actually address the problem.

A dish washer isn't really designed to do laundy nor will a microwave

dry it. However, you can buy a new microwave pretty cheap these days!

Archaeologists are not at all interested in " new " dust.

And last, but not least, is that there's a lot little things that

have to be done each and every single day. Pick this up, put that

away, it's like it never ever ends! And if you don't do it, when you

come back it's still there! Geez, what happened to the good ol' days

when things just magically took care of themselves! And this is

suppose to be " good " for me? I don't think so!

Stan

Seattle, Cloudy