It was more like thinking how I just couldn't do it, and trying to imagine it, and not being able to. I will bring my second cup of coffee into the bathroom when I am getting dressed and putting on my makeup. A lot of time I don't finish the second cup before I shower, and then it kinda gets carted around while I am doing all the things I've gotta do, but that's not one of them. So I've brought my coffee cup with coffee in it and set it down on the sink, so it's not impossible for me to imagine having comestibles in the bathroom. It's eating and relieving myself at the same time, it's just something I never even imagined before.
My grandmother was a cleanliness freak, and my mother was too, for a while, but it didn't take with me. But there are some things that are iron clad rules that there is no deviation from.
For example, sweep first, then dust, then mop. The sweeping kicks up dust, you see.
Always dump out your mop water when it gets really dirty.
Hang the toilet paper roll so the loose end hangs down the back.
That might be it. There are a lot more rules, but as I said, they didn't take. One of my grandmother's rules which I don't remember exactly had something to do with not trying to clean things that got contaminated, just throwing them away. She'd say, "how long would you have to boil urine for before you drank it?" She was a strange lady, but I think what happened was that her mother, who was Chippewa, was sent to the Carlisle Indian School and taught by the nuns there, and her father was German, so between the nuns and the Huns, she got a little warped. |
