Entropy on the dining table
I wrote this then the day before posting it Peige at Pretend Typewriter wrote about cleaning the dining table. Sometimes the universe just goes like that. How many people are right now stressing that their dining table is messy? Maybe millions. So I thought about deleting the post but then decided no, that coincidence in itself is something interesting.
The forces of entropy are particularly strong on my dining table. A blackhole sucking junk in.
There's also a spare chair no one sits in. Because it never gets used for sitting stuff gets piled on it. Because stuff gets piled on it it never gets used for sitting. You know how it goes.
I'm consistently baffled by how messy and mucky things get so quickly. Why does everywhere need hoovering so often? What do you mean the sink needs cleaning again? Didn't I just do that?
My wife says my standards are high. I feel my standards are pretty low, actually. We were at my sister's for one of the many children's birthdays parties, a bunch of aunt and uncle Pokemon characters standing around in the kitchen watching kids dropping food on the floor and eating it anyway. "To be fair," I said, "if I was going to eat off any kitchen floor it would be this one."
The floor under the dining table is also affected. Because of all the legs, creating a little forest to trap stuff blowing in through the back door. Right now that's a lot of dandelion seeds, wisping about. Perennial dust bunnies of course. The robot hoover gets lost under there, also trapped. Sometimes I put the chairs up on the table to give him free rein.
Other than the dining chairs all my downstairs furniture is strategically placed a robot's width away from walls and other furniture. The organising unit of measurement in this house. It was his birthday the other day. I love him - I remember his birthday. Well, the day he arrived here. I want to celebrate it every year. Throw confetti and then send him to hoover it up.
We don't always eat on the dining table. Maybe three or four times a week. It's just as likely being used for games or jigsaws or DIY. Sometimes at the same time as the eating. This is almost certainly part of the problem.
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