ReservoirDog, I thought my cats must be the only ones to do what your does. At least I’m not alone in thinking cleaning the litterbox is THE most thankless task!
Thankless job at my house?
After dinner, everyone helps clear the table.
Everyone but my dad.
I am the one who must serve as his personal bus-girl, asking “are you finished?” and if he is, remove the plate. If not, I must stand there waiting until he is.
Stupid patriarchal family… :mad:
Testing the toilet water to make sure it’s fit for human consumption. Does anyone ever thank his dog for doing this?
And then there’s the thankless task of dogs and cats keeping their privates clean. Do we ever thank them for not needing our help?
Anti Pro – you clean the outside vent for your dryer every week? I’m trying to imagine why this should be necessary. And it ** must** be, or else you wouldn’t be doing it, unless you like the view from the ladder or something.
I’d replace the tubing. There’s no way this should get plugged up every week.
As for the OP, I have nothing to contribute. There are just the two of us, two cats and a dog, and there’s really very little to do to keep things livable. Not perfect, but livable.
I do all the thankless jobs here. Except garbage. My standards may be low, but I won’t do garbage. Or weedwack.
The one that niether of us will do is change the burnt out lightbulbs in the glass covered chandelier that hangs from our cathedral ceiling.
We started out 7 years ago with 12 working bulbs.
We are down to about 6.
It’s getting dimmer and dimmer in our main room, and half is due to the burnt bulb situation, the other is due to the fact that this glass thing has never been dusted in seven years, so the light is slowly being eclipsed by our unwillingness to drag in the 20 ft step ladder. ( because if we did that, we’d have to buy more bulbs and we can’t buy more bulbs until we drag out the ladder and haul it in and go up and see what kind of bulbs to get and then take down the ladder because our toddler would most definately try to do some kind of George of the Jungle stunt off of it. Not that I would mind, but it would frighten the dog. And the damned dog already has enough issues as it is. ( Whew, that was a fillibuster)
That, and putting the covers back on the ceiling fixture after changing another dead bulb and removing dead bugs.
Superintendent of Sewers