Sometimes I think the world is divided into only two types of people. Neat freaks and slobs. Or to put it another way, those who put things back and those who just leave things where they are. Some of us change as we get older.
My mother thought I was a slob when I was in my teens, but she had yet to meet my college roommate. She was a great roommate and we had many hours of fun, but I could only take so much of her housekeeping skills. She had a habit of dropping her clothes at the end of the day on the easy chair in her bedroom. At first, there would be only one or two items and she would say “just sit on top of the clothes, it won’t hurt. I’ll wash them soon.” That soon could turn into a month… until one almost needed a ladder to climb on top of the stack to sit down. Once climbing on top of the stack became impossible, everyone sat on the floor until the laundry was finally done and one could see and use the chair for a few days, Continue reading “Pick It Up”