"Ronn! Blankenship" wrote:
>
> At 05:31 PM 1/15/03 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
> >Well, maybe not, but you never can tell with someone who gets
> >absorbed in *reading* the 2-week-old newspapers he's supposed to be
> >using to protect the carpet, instead of starting to paint the wall in
> >anything approximating a timely manner. :)
>
> Me, too. And, really, we're _not_ just procrastinating. There's just so
> much interesting stuff published in the paper.
Yep, that's the problem. Would've saved time, but not money, to
actually buy some drop cloths. :) (And his wife's niece was there to
witness the whole thing, so it got back to her brothers, who were the
ones who told *us* about it in the first place. They find him somewhat
amusing, at times. And if you're not used to seeing an engineer except
at Thanksgiving and Christmas, yes, it *would* be amusing....)
> When he, ahem, is in the bathroom, does he read (or re-read, or re-re-read)
> the labels on the cans if there's nothing else available to read? When I
> was younger and we visited them every few weeks, I could probably not only
> tell you what products my grandmother and my mother's sister kept on their
> bathroom shelves, but could probably have identified any of them from the
> list of ingredients . . .
I have no idea. We tend not to discuss bathroom behavior, except the
proper use of fans (and how to turn them on -- all bathroom fans in this
house are on timers, you have to set the timer to make the fan turn on),
toilet paper supplies (under sinks in all bathrooms except the master
bath), and locks (just don't lock the door in the toilet under the
staris, and you won't have the moment of panic of being stuck in there,
OK?).
Now, I think he *has* dragged a newspaper section into the bathroom now
and again when he's been visiting, but that's something I do sometimes,
as well. (He may be more likely to take a magazine in, though.)
Julia
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