Incapacity

****  This post ran for about 15 minutes yesterday morning before I realized Spin’s infiltrated post had been “buried” by my scheduled post.  The ONE WEEK I have more bloggy fodder than I know what to do with and he sneaks one in on me.

Well, hey – at least we’re not talking about a pregnancy.

Happy Friday!  We are on our way down to Vanity and FlyBoy’s for the weekend, so I won’t be posting again until Monday.*****

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INCAPACITY

Not that I know much about doing a half-*ssed job at anything, but I can understand Spin’s misconstrued notion last week.

My mother always charges my father with intentionally doing a marginal job at any given task, so as not to be asked to do it again. Ever.

Whether it’s legitimate or not, I do not share the same trait as my father.

But I am challenged in certain areas.

Areas such as, oh say…… laundry.

As my loyal readers are aware, Spin does the laundry in our house.

And yes, for all you Spin-loving readers, yes already, I understand and fully appreciate the full scope of what it means that he does laundry.

Especially in light of my own incapacity to see a load of laundry from start to finish all by myself.

But there’s something you need to understand, dear reader. My incapacity has been enabled.

Spin’s father did – DOES – all the laundry. Spin was raised to do the same. This is easy for Spin because he is a Multi-tasking MASTER.

Me? Not so much.

Laundry simply doesn’t occur to me.

(Why would it? I never run out of clean clothes!)

I have a point to make. I’m getting there.

When Spin “took the week off from laundry last week” (post-marathon), I did my very best to pick up the slack. Without being asked, I might add.

It’s true. He will openly attest to the fact.

Problem is – I tend to forget things I’ve started.

So when I tell you that a load of grays/ khakis/ greens sat in the washer for a while (okay, two days) before needing to be re-washed and moved to the dryer, you’ll understand it was less about the marginal job than it was about the intention.

Clearly.

(Right?)

So, once he was back to himself and the following conversation occurred, well – it begged to be posted.

Spin: “Did you do laundry today?”

Me: (hesitating) “Ahhhh……?”

Spin: “I want your answer to be ‘No’.”

Me: “What? Why?”

Spin: “Because it is so much easier on me to do the laundry from start to finish on my own, than it is to try to pick up in the middle of wherever you have forgotten to complete what you started.”

Nice.

I feel so under-appreciated incompetent.