Small and Inconsequential
This morning I was rushing to get out of the house to be on time for a meeting in the Financial District, and when I went to put on my earrings I dropped one in the garbage pail.
Once, when I lived in Florida, I dropped a ring down the garbage disposal. Since I was running out the door to work, I didn't have time to try to get the ring, so I just made a mental note not to turn on the garbage disposal until the ring was out. Yeah, umm ... I forgot about the ring.
Thinking of that ring this morning, I didn't want to forget my earring, so I took my garbage pail up off the floor and put it on top of my dresser. Visual reminders are much more useful than mental reminders. Or maybe it's that the visual reminder triggers the mental reminder?
Whichever. The important thing is that when I got home early this afternoon I spent about a minute and a half saying, "EWWW!" continuously as I picked through my garbage pail to find my earring.
Once I found it I plugged the bathroom sink, dropped the earring in, washed my hands, then took the earring out and thoroughly wiped it with alcohol. My bathroom counter is tiny, but hopefully when I go to take my earring back into my bedroom I won't accidentally knock the earring into the bathroom garbage, or worse, into the toilet.
Once, when I lived in Florida, I dropped a ring down the garbage disposal. Since I was running out the door to work, I didn't have time to try to get the ring, so I just made a mental note not to turn on the garbage disposal until the ring was out. Yeah, umm ... I forgot about the ring.
Thinking of that ring this morning, I didn't want to forget my earring, so I took my garbage pail up off the floor and put it on top of my dresser. Visual reminders are much more useful than mental reminders. Or maybe it's that the visual reminder triggers the mental reminder?
Whichever. The important thing is that when I got home early this afternoon I spent about a minute and a half saying, "EWWW!" continuously as I picked through my garbage pail to find my earring.
Once I found it I plugged the bathroom sink, dropped the earring in, washed my hands, then took the earring out and thoroughly wiped it with alcohol. My bathroom counter is tiny, but hopefully when I go to take my earring back into my bedroom I won't accidentally knock the earring into the bathroom garbage, or worse, into the toilet.
posted by Green at 3/04/2009 04:15:00 PM
2 Comments:
At least you dropped an earring in your garbage pail and didn't swallow an engagement ring that your (about to be) fiancee put it in your food when he was going to propose!
You only have to wash and clean it - she had to first wait for nature to take its course before getting started on cleaning & disinfecting it.
Hm... how gross was the garbage pail... or do you have a lower tolerance for gross factor? (I speak from having had to rescue something out of a toilet with pee in it when LN used to play "Toss things into the toilet" game. As someone once pointed out, at least it wasn't poo. After reading the above comment, yes, I agree that at least it wasn't poo.)
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