A Trashy Love Story
By AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16679)
Boston, Massachusetts
July 5, 2016 7:54am CST
I love trash. I love garbage.
I didn't know that I loved these things, but it is evident to me that I must. Why else would everyone in the house give it all to me?
For instance, why would they not scrape the food from their plates before they put them in the sink unless they knew I loved to put my hands in a pile of garbage? Nice, wet, gooey garbage. So slimy and mushy.
Why would they refuse to put a plastic liner in the trash can unless they knew that emptying it by hand into a bag was my greatest desire?
And why would they make me face all of this before I have had my morning coffee unless they knew for a fact that it would be the highlight of my day?
Obviously, I love garbage and everyone knows it.
Is there something you are suspected of loving that everyone leaves for you to deal with?
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20 responses
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
5 Jul 16
I must believe that men don't notice such things, that they don't care about it and that we must be programmed to care. Or, it's more likely that no one ever walks into an untidy house and blames the husband. They always assume it's the wife who isn't good at housekeeping. My husband never leaves anything on his plate, but he is a product of the "clean your plate" generation.
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@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
5 Jul 16
I only have one other person in the house with me, and he thinks I love it too. Never been known to empty the kitchen trash into the outside bin, and certainly never put a new liner in. And he always leaves something on his plate for me to deal with.
So I do understand where you are coming from with this.
So I do understand where you are coming from with this.2 people like this
@silvermist (19702)
• India
5 Jul 16
I am sorry you have to suffer all these before
your morning coffee.How about a heart to heart
talk with all those concerned the night before?
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@silvermist (19702)
• India
5 Jul 16
@Rollo1 So no light at the end of the tunnel?
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@1creekgirl (41692)
• United States
5 Jul 16
I never could convince my son that I didn't live to take his glasses and plates to the kitchen. He eventually got better, but still relapses at times.
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@Marilynda1225 (83063)
• United States
5 Jul 16
Apparently I have the same love of garbage in my house as I find the sink with unscraped dishes and of course there is always an overflowing garbage bag in the kitchen. It's almost like a science experiment to see how much can be shoved in one bag before everything starts to fall on the floor.
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@LovingMyBabies (85288)
• Valdosta, Georgia
5 Jul 16
Yup the same thing in our house! It drives me nutty because I definitely do not like it at all. Lol. I don't deal with slimy very well.
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@koopharper (7601)
• Canada
5 Jul 16
Kids assume that all adults like these things. My kids assume that my wife likes garbage in the house and she assumes I like it laying in the yard. We've recently managed a partial truce on this one.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
5 Jul 16
lol, I bet you can find ways to, hmmmn, discourage repeat offenders of such travesties.
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@jillybean1222 (6407)
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6 Jul 16
ha ha, i can totally relate! what i love is when people shove trash into the trash can so that it is in so tight you cannot get the bag out. or when they pay no attention that the liner has fallen. they continue to just dump the trash in
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@Poppylicious (11133)
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5 Jul 16
I love dust, jeans left scrunched on the floor and cooking. Allegedly.
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@Sharon38 (1912)
• Jamaica
7 Jul 16
Cleaning up messes that others caused even at work. I know that I am clean freak but at work...new employees come I am instructed to assist yet those new comers never were able to assist me when I am overwhelmed but I work with it and its one file at a time until its finished. Have a great day!
@ElizabethWallace (12074)
• United States
5 Jul 16
My family always expected me to solve their problems. This started when I was a kid and has continued all my life. Even though our parents had professional executors of their wills, my brother and sister communicated with him through me. I didn't ask for this honor (job), like you, they must just think I enjoy the work. I don't.
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@paigea (36316)
• Canada
5 Jul 16
I must love booking reservations for trips and making other phone calls. That always gets left to me.
But, I don't deal with the garbage much. My husband does act annoyed if he is the one who ends up finally taking out the compost; but he does it if I didn't1 person likes this
@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
7 Jul 16
I don't have that issue anymore but I do have a trashy comment....when my sister was staying here she brought in the trash can that I had put out the night before. She never mentioned it. It's a fairly long driveway and I truly appreciated it. I hardly ever had to take the trash in and out before, my husband always took care of it.
