Now you guys have gone and done--you've given me a complex and implied that
I'm a lousy housekeeper!!!!!  Why, because I DO NOT have a penis and it
never occurred to me not to keep the strainer in the drain hole.  I never
even knew anybody who took their strainer out and kept it on the counter.
Must be a city thing.  Ruth





At 5:25 PM -0500 3/8/03, Ralph Walter wrote:
In a message dated 3/8/2003 4:10:32 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:

Another common sexual stereotypical use related issue is about the strainer
in the sink, a device that has cause considerable consternation to the
various sexes that populate my places of work and home.   The men say "Why
is it that women always leave the thing on the back of the sink counter
when it is beautifully designed (probably by a man) to be in the drain hole
to look nice and keep their rings from falling in so their men will have to
take stupid time to open the plumbing and retrieve them."   The women say
"Why is it that men always leave the thing in the drain and never finish
cleaning up after themselves."

cp (always putting it back) in bc


Cuyler,

I believe your observations in this matter are entirely correct.  However,
I have no idea why this should be the case.  Nor am I at all certain
whether to be consoled or profoundly distressed to learn that this is
evidently a common trait among the Penis-free People.

Mrs. Ralph is forever filling the kitchen sink with garbage (which should
go into the garbage can two steps away, but noooooooooooo), without putting
the damn strainer in, or with the strainer half in, which still permits
broccoli stumps and other debris to go skittering down the drain.  The
drain line gets clogged, or is slow, and guess who gets to clean it out?

Humor, Accuracy, and Plumbing Czar

--
Ruth Barton
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Westminster, VT

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