amusing minor household incompatibilities
Jun. 12th, 2020 11:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberettOkay so. You have a cupboard. The cupboard... needs organising.
If you are me: you spend up to a couple of weeks taking things out of the cupboard and then leaving them on the counter until the cupboard's about half-empty, at which point you gather the cope to Sort It Out. (The more full the cupboard is the more overwhelmed you are and the less you have cope for anything including getting things out of it when you need them.)
If you are A: you keep putting things back into the cupboard willy-nilly until you hit a convenient confluence of executive function and boredom, then take everything out and put it back in a way that makes sense. (The more cluttered the side is the more overwhelmed you are and the less you have cope for anything, especially putting things away neatly.)
These two approaches... are not super compatible, especially if you both keep getting low-grade (minorly! briefly! fleetingly, even!) exasperated with the other person for Not Doing The Obviously Sensible Thing.
IT IS OKAY WE SORTED IT OUT but the conversation was a solid ten minutes of staring at each other in mounting confusion and perplexity and bafflement while we tried to make the words go enough to fit the concept of the One True Way into each others' heads before we finally got it resolved. (I'd say "sorted out" but that... is a job for another day.)
If you are me: you spend up to a couple of weeks taking things out of the cupboard and then leaving them on the counter until the cupboard's about half-empty, at which point you gather the cope to Sort It Out. (The more full the cupboard is the more overwhelmed you are and the less you have cope for anything including getting things out of it when you need them.)
If you are A: you keep putting things back into the cupboard willy-nilly until you hit a convenient confluence of executive function and boredom, then take everything out and put it back in a way that makes sense. (The more cluttered the side is the more overwhelmed you are and the less you have cope for anything, especially putting things away neatly.)
These two approaches... are not super compatible, especially if you both keep getting low-grade (minorly! briefly! fleetingly, even!) exasperated with the other person for Not Doing The Obviously Sensible Thing.
IT IS OKAY WE SORTED IT OUT but the conversation was a solid ten minutes of staring at each other in mounting confusion and perplexity and bafflement while we tried to make the words go enough to fit the concept of the One True Way into each others' heads before we finally got it resolved. (I'd say "sorted out" but that... is a job for another day.)
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Date: 2020-06-13 09:48 am (UTC)