Man, I hate cleaning my toilet.
I need a maid.
Dude, I can't afford a maid. (Why do I call myself “dude?” Shouldn’t I call myself, “Myself?”)
Maybe if I sold a kidney, I could afford a maid.
Hey, if I sold both kidneys, I wouldn't need a toilet.
Oh right: poop. Well played, human digestive biology, well played.
You know what? The government should provide everyone with a maid. Someone to clean their toilet. They should institute a national maid-corps program, the members of which— and everyone would be a member—would clean other people's toilets. Specifically, my toilet.
Oh. Wait. Then they'd make me clean someone else's toilet. We'd all just be cleaning each other's toilets. And what if I got some big fat guy who takes, like, explosive dumps that go all over the place? Man, that would suck. For me and for the fat guy, because I'd totally blow off cleaning his toilet.
Hmmm. I believe I might have found the problem with socialism: having to clean some fat dude’s explosive dumps.
Why is this toilet-cleanser blue? Does blue toilet-cleanser work better? Is there something in the blue that makes little shit-crumbs shit themselves and run away? I suppose I'd be scared of a blue cleanser if I were a shit-crumb. Or maybe if I were a shit crumb, I'd have other problems, bigger problems, that would swamp the blue-cleanser issue.
Nah. Shit-crumbs are happy-go-lucky. Like Shriners. But without the motorized tricycles. When I flush, they'll scream, "Wheeeee!" and slide down the drain like kids at a water-park. Of course, only other shit-crumbs are able to hear them. They're not great communicators, shit-crumbs.
I wonder if a really small person could flush himself down the toilet? Like Verne Troyer, maybe. It'd have to be a powerful toilet, like, you'd need an outboard motor. If I were Verne Troyer, I'd never put an outboard motor on my toilet.
Flush! Wheeeeee! Oh, okay, fine, I made that sound, not the shit-crumbs. I know that; I'm not crazy. I don't care what the fucking voices in my head say. Well, I'd care if they said, "Kill! Kill! Kill!" but they don't; mostly they just tell me to be extremely rude.
If there are really alligators in the sewer, and they're really white from lack of sunlight, did I just dye one blue? Because if so, and anyone, like a sewer worker, saw that alligator, that guy who saw him would probably laugh his ass off. And while he was laughing the alligator would sneak up and bite him in two. You’re welcome, newly-blue sewer alligator.
Now my toilet smells like pine. I guess that's nice. If someone came in here right now, would they think I ate a Christmas tree yesterday?
Time to clean the mold out of the fridge. I hope the spores are hallucinogenic.


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Have a good weekend! I don't read OS on the weekends. Gotta give my eyes a break.
It is cyclical for me.
Thank you for reminding me to look in the bowl.
(thumbified for the blue stuff)
For a funny story regarding blue toilet chemicals, check out this tale from Patrick Smith, of Salon's "Ask the Pilot". http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/col/smith/2002/10/03/askthepilot13/print.html
Mr. Mustard, what can I say? Writing finds its own level.
And your aim may not be true, but your heart is pure, which gives you the strength of ten men, or three men and a bear.
Steve, I have indeed met Sheldon, and he's awesome. I'm intrigued that he and I were both writing on a similar theme today.
GeeBee: that's a good a theory as any I could come up with. And yeah, that Patrick Smith story is awesome.
Have you heard about chunks of "blue ice" falling off planes? Spider Robinson did a whole bit story about one hitting someone on the ground, whom he then asserted was the only person on earth ever to be killed by an icy BM. (Um, that was funnier during the Cold War, when ICBMs were more in the news.)
Jodi, I am nothing if not public-service-minded.
Aw, Gwendolyn, just wait until my next piece, on things I've found in the dumpster out back of my house.
O'Really, I hope you didn't tie-dye it in the bowl. That would be unsanitary.
Mary, sweetfeet, Lisa and Dave: thank you guys. I'm just writing what I know. And Dave, on the people paying me idea: I take Visa and Mastercard.
Nora: You have no idea--none, zero, zip--how filthy two girls can be. Trust me, there's a reason their bathroom is not the guest bathroom.
Roger, your house must be the most popular in the neighborhood around July.
On a side note - re your comment to Steve Blevins... I do remember Rod McKuen... just imagine what he might do with your topic here!
LuluandPhoebe, the first thing I'd have done, had I been you in that situation, is to burn all the kitchen sponges. Because, and I cannot emphasize this enough, ewwwwwwww.
Thanks, Zuma and j lynne.
GeeBee, I shudder to think of trying to explain that to my insurance company.
annette2009: I just don't think I'd want to have that kind of power ready to be unleashed that close to my tender bits. The potential for disaster is...unthinkable.
I think Rod McKuen writing about crap would probably be the perfect marriage of form and content.
Cindy, I really liked your Circling the Drain piece. I didn't find it depressing at all, just honest and well-written.
Yeah, yeah, I'm coming around to the idea that I should put the ads up. Soon...