I've just made an amazing discovery. When we took the carpet out of our "dining room" (who in his right mind puts carpet in the dining room?) we exposed the original linoleum flooring from the 1950s. It looks almost exactly like carpet pad, colored with odd-sized, multi-colored chunks in a completely random pattern. What no one realized until now was that this flooring has a magnetic (more like gravitational) pull stronger than the willpower of 8 children. Items from all over the house magically attach themselves to the kitchen floor where they remain firmly planted until Mom gets out the magic bottle of elbow grease which she uses to uproot the objects. Each morning the floor is spic and span. By the end of the day, any number of strange and bizarre objects decorate it. It's like a fantastic "I Spy" game. For instance, today . . .
I spy a towel, a cereal box, and a packet of seeds,
A fork, a blue sock, and something to read,
A package of cups, some crackers to munch,
And a few bites of something left over from lunch.
I spy a white bucket and four chairs, too,
Top Ramen, some pretzels, and a booster that's blue.
A yellow bib, some napkins, and a box from Vienna
Some oreo crumbs and a stain of Burnt Sienna.
3 comments:
I think that more than sticking just to the floor is the magnetic pull of objects to counter space, dressers, couches etc. I spend at least 2 hours a week just moving things from where they have magically appeared to where they are to be. I wish you the best of luck. It's one of those things I won't miss when the kids are gone.
Wow! That was quite a poem! You are very good at those! Good luck!
This is Jim. It's weird but our family room rug has the same magnetic pull. I wonder if we put the rug on your kitchen floor if they would cancel each other out? Or would it create a tear in the time space continum and end the world?
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