I thought I was heading faster towards 12, but I'm disappointed to see I had only achieved 3. But there is another one that occurred to me this morning, so the list is now up to 4:
1. Always carry a clean, ironed handkerchief in your pocket. Always.
2. Never buy into timeshare apartments or holiday schemes.
3. If you have a choice, buy the washing machine with a 15 minute "fast wash" option.
and, ta-dah:
4. Always buy reverseable belts. (You know, usually black on one side and brown on the other.)
7 comments:
Excellent rules - except ...
wearing a brown belt?
Especially rule 1.
Doesn't everyone wear a brown belt with brown/tan pants??
I see you agree with me regarding handkerchiefs. I use mine to open the toilet entry door when leaving public toilets (as well as to fully dry my hands after the inadequate drying achieved by airblowers.) It all appears very natural: you remove handkerchief to finish drying hands, then use the folded 'chief to also grasp the door handle on the way out, before returning it to your pocket.
I like to think that this will help me avoid catching the next global viral epidemic that will kill billions, or turn them into zombies. But I am slightly perturbed that, if you use yours for the same sanitary purposes, you might be the only other non zombie left in Australia, who I meet up while wandering the land trying to find a defensible site with which to re-start humanity...
As a corollary to 3, avoid front-loading washing machines. There is nothing more irritating than having to wait ten minutes or more to open the door, just because a sock fell to the floor which you didn't notice until a few seconds after starting the cycle.
Actually, Mayan, front loading machines are terrific for lower water consumption (important when you pay for metered water usage now, an your city gets down towards 15% of water storage as Brisbane did in the drought) and I would not go back to top loading (which now have a very small share of market, I would guess.) But, they do have that annoying issue, which is why I say that it must have a short cycle option. (They also all develop mold on the seal issues, but I can handle that.)
Hmmmmm. It's going to be you and me after the zombie apocalypse.
Mind you - I'd never be in a public toilet. So it's going to be Jason and me. Not you.
"I'd never be in a public toilet."
What? Did Ayn Rand have something against them because they are free?
Anyway, given that adult diapers or a catheter are the only alternative, I assume I should not take your comment seriously. Are you just signalling that both you and Jason are germophobes? Like Trump.
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