Grape Jelly Booby Trap
So, DH and I are doing really well on all counts. He has been incredibly supportive of my pursuits lately. And keeps expressing thanks for all I've done to support him over the years, especially the past year, which has been rough financially.
All that is a preface to say...the following is mostly light-hearted. Mostly 
This weekend, I had a brief flash, or trigger, of the old despair and rage I used to feel when I asked DH to talk to SS18 about not using the kitchen towels that I hang on the oven handle. I cook a lot, so I have a towel hanging so I can quickly dry my hands during food prep. SS18 STILL can't make a PB&J without getting grape jelly all over the counter, despite multiple lessons from DH. He's had this problem since he was 10, only he used to leave the big globs of grape jelly all over the counter as a nice little treat for the roaches. Now, 8 years later, he wipes it up with my dry kitchen linen, which he then hangs back up with the jelly side hidden against the oven...so...progress?
Anyway, as you can imagine, this creates a DISGUSTING little booby trap for me, the main cook of the house. Yesterday, as I was cooking Sunday dinner, I washed my hands...went to dry them on my towel, and stuck my fingers right into a huge, sticky smear of grape jelly instead. I pointed this out to DH and asked him to talk to SS...because I don't do any correction, especially of full-grown skids who really should know better. Not my job. I told DH the issue, asked him to tell SS to use a wet cloth and then rinse it out or use a wet paper towel. For a moment, I got a brief, knee-jerk "why must you pick on my kid" response from DH, until I shot it down with a look. REALLY. At 18, there is zero excuse for this level of sloppiness.
It's a little thing, of course, but the little things are what drive me crazy sometimes.
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LOL. I actually have a
LOL.
I actually have a cabinet of towels as well. But when a towel is rehung neatly where I left it and looks perfectly clean from the front...I guess I'm not expecting an enormous swath of partially-dried jelly on the backside. Now I know!
But isn't that the story with most skids...look fine from the front...sticky, awful on the backside }:)
This is what I do. I don't
This is what I do.
I don't trust the towels I hang out because I've seen SDs and DH use them on various things.
And even on the floor then hang them up :O
I circulate new towels through all the time and if I need one, I get a clean one from the drawer.
Stop buying jelly
Stop buying jelly }:)
18 and he pulls that crap?
18 and he pulls that crap? Pfffft. Stop buying jelly AND peanut butter. Let him eat Lunchables.
Yep. Thank you for verifying
Yep. Thank you for verifying that it's insane behavior and not me being too picky!
Hon, this skid is 18. Old
Hon, this skid is 18. Old enough to clean up his own mess as TOLD. Old enough to go to college and live in a dorm. Old enough to move out and live on his own. Old enough to follow some damn rules and have some common sense!!
If this continued, I'd be forced to take steps. NO MORE TOWELS available for Jellyboy to clean up. He'd have no choice but to use a paper towel because I'd have hidden all of the towels and pulled them out as needed.
I get the cancer peanut
I get the cancer peanut butter on my towels, on the counter, on the handles to the refrigerator, EVERYWHERE that girl touches with her fingers.
I absolutely LOST IT yesterday afternoon when I got a giant glob of peanut butter on my hands when I reached for the fridge door. I seriously yelled at DH, "OH FOR F*CK'S SAKE, AGAIN WITH THE DAMN PEANUT BUTTER ON THE MOTHERF*CKING DOOR?? WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT GIRL????"
DH was smart, he went upstairs into his office so as not endure any more of my wrath
AFTER he cleaned up the damn peanut butter.
I have decided that I will re-engage when it comes to Ms. IGetPeanutButterEverywhere. The next time I come across it, I am going to march into her room and make her come downstairs and clean it up. I am sick and damn tired of wandering through my kitchen in fear of sticky messes everywhere and I DAMN sure am tired of cleaning them up.
no $#!t. this is
no $#!t. this is mind-boggling. i thank my lucky stars they boys generally dont do crap like this. h3ll, they wont hardly even make themselves a d@mn sandwich anyway.
it's my *dh* who walks away with the kitchen towel to use as a napkin. any time i go to dry my hands off, i'm like "where the PHUC is my D@MN towel at now????" kaos, on the other hand, uses FIVE D@MN paper towels to dry off a half-dollar size of spilled milk. there's never any middle ground.
In the words of BabyVoice,
In the words of BabyVoice, how hard is it to not get peanut butter everywhere??
"I don't know."
I actually do know how it happens. She is very messy with the knife when she gets jelly or peanut butter for her toast or sandwich. It drips or gets on the outside of jar. When she grabs it to put it back in the fridge, it gets on her hands, then the door handles, then the kitchen towels.
It is SERIOUSLY exhausting living in my house.
My SD12 gets her dad to make
My SD12 gets her dad to make sandwiches FOR her by saying, 'But daaad, I can't do it as good as you'. :sick:
FFS, WOB, lock up that
FFS, WOB, lock up that facking peanut butter!! It should only be used under adult (your DH) supervision. Ri-fuckin-diculous.
I had this issue with ice
I had this issue with ice cream on Thursday.
:O
SD12 got herself out some ice cream, new container.
I go into the kitchen and notice she hasn't cleaned up, ice cream on counter, floor, plastic seals/cover on counter.
I ask her, nicely, to please pick up once she' done.
"OK."
I go into kitchen later and her bowl is in sink but nothing is cleaned up and DH has ADDED to the pile. !! I say, "WTH is this?" DH, "What's wrong now?" Me, "Don't patronize me. I'm sick of cleaning up messes, why is it ME who has to look at this and think it needs to be cleaned. I am NOT A MAID and will not be a maid." DH, "SD12, go clean it up. Now." Me, "Thank you."
And then I went to bed.
I engage on kitchen cleanliness and always will.
Sounds like what happens in
Sounds like what happens in my house all the time...it's exhausting. FDH says what's the big deal? The deal is I'm not the f'ing maid and it's not just going to sit here for days!!!
Imagining PigPen wiping so
Imagining PigPen wiping so much as a grimy fingertip on one of my towels. :sick:
lol. All sounds very
lol. All sounds very familiar. Mine are polite and sweet as pie...but LAZY and SLOPPY.
I learned VERY quickly that
I learned VERY quickly that you CAN'T have nice things around skids. Good thing I had throw away, curbside furniture when YSS, then almost 7, decided to shit all over the house, rubbing it into the furniture when he was angry things weren't going his way all the time.
Chef, at the height of his
Chef, at the height of his guilty/Disney dadism was buying him candy and toys the next day. He wanted to blame it on the Girhippo (BM) but in this case it was his own damn fault (long story).
Eventually all three PASed out. By the end of that year (house shitting and the year after the fake CPS report--did I mention that the Girhippo WORKS for CPS?) YSS had PASed out over a home cooked meal.
Took six years. The two oldest PASed out in approx. five years of scorched earth policy on the part of the Girhippo and her clan.
Needless to say, I got new furniture shortly after YSS had PASed out and burned that old crappy (literally) furniture anyway. :evil:
I believe YSS = younger
I believe YSS = younger step-son.
I have seasonal kitchen
I have seasonal kitchen towels that Chef uses a lot. If I don't put away my, for example, SUMMER towels, he will use them.
I still can't get Chef to use laundry bins!!! He either throws clothes directly into the washing machine (umm I SORT clothes and odds are he has pens, screws, change still in the pockets)
OR
he hangs them over stuff like chairs
OR
he strips and leaves them on the floor
When skids were coming over they never washed their hands and when I told them to do so, I was looked at as an evil ogre.
progress.. SS is cleaning and
progress.. SS is cleaning and not leaving it as is... see the light lol,
Now 2 options, stop buying jelly and stop leaving your towels in the kitchen... it's never going to change Hon, accept it and make other plans....
Why do I say this... SO use my hand drying towel to wipe his car's dipstick.... and he hangs it back in the kitchen..
Oh SO also uses the bathroom white towels to dry and polish his car.... shall I go on....
I know I will never be able to change it, no I hide the good stuff and I leave his oil cloth for him
The future of America ...so
The future of America ...so scary. Amazing how clueless these kids are. I HATE messes being left in the kitchen. After a few warnings these piggy kids deserve to have their messes wiped up with the their pillow case or a favorite piece of clothing.
Anything that he abuses,
Anything that he abuses, which you have given him and daddeee fair notice of, jelly, peanut butter, etc., buy no more and trash the remainder.
Problem solved.