It’s Wednesday, trash day. This means that there are three empty trash bins on the street in front of my house.
When I finished at the gym this morning I drove right past the bins, parked in the driveway and came into the house to start my day.
Yes, I am aware that I’m a fully functioning adult woman who should be able to take her own trash cans from the street to the side yard. Yes, I recognize that it’s tacky as hell to leave the bins on the street. No, I don’t want to be like my neighbors.
The problem is that trash can hauling is not my job, and I’ve been married too long to start learning his jobs. Mr. G won’t be cooking us dinner any time soon, and I don’t close the gate, shower the kids, bring in the trash, or the “bacon”.
The bigger problem is that Mr. G is out of town until Friday.
I’ve got a choice. I can leave the trash cans out on the street like the white trashiest family in town, or I can suck it up and just be Mr. G until Friday.
I’m embarrassed to tell you which choice I know I’ll make.
And this is where kids come in handy. One of the very few jobs my 9 year old son has around the house is to drag the cans into the garage after he gets home from school. Some day, his wife will thank me.
Same here – he’s got trash can duty and for some reason I have “replace the bar of soap when it’s finished” duty around our house. It’s pretty clear cut.
Funny thing is that at my house, I have trash duty, and my husband has the soap replacing duty. ;)
Agreed – play dumb like you can’t do the task and you’ll never be responsible for handling the task. Leave it outside. In an unrelated trashcan story- our crazy neighbors have posted a sign on their trashcan that states “This is not {underlined/bold} a community trash can. Our trash only!”
Glad my city has an ordinance preventing people like you from turning my neighborhood into a dumpster village.
What “learning” is involved in this trivial job? Just do it, you lazy, self-righteous cunt.
Well put Tricia. Mr. G needs to grow a pair. I’m a man and I take out the trash 99 percent of the time. But when i go out of town my wife does it without complaint. I’d be pissed if I came home to overflowing trashcans because by other half is to stupid or self absorbed. That would only happen once.