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Anti-Bethie Kid Post
I have a disgusting story to share in honor of bethie's inability to access the nest at work today.
The other night I hear a knock at my bedroom door at roughly 12:30. Connor is standing there naked and holding wet pants/underwear. I go to his room, change his clothes and see that his bed is dry. Ok, sometimes he pees a little as he's getting his pants down. I ask him about it and he's clearly still mostly asleep and incoherent. I go back to bed.
About ten minutes later, I have dozed off and wake up to shenanigans. Kevin has gotten home from work and apparently stepped into a giant puddle of pee in the hallway/entry/bathroom doorway. Like giant puddle. I get up, clean up the floor with the towel that was handy (and wipe everything down with disinfectant of course). At this point it's like 1 am, I'm half asleep too, so I toss the towel in the washer so it will be washed with the next load of clothes.
Fast forward to yesterday when Kevin goes to do a load of laundry. Upon finding a wet towel in the washer he throws it in the dryer (along with a load of Connors clothes that were already in there and not yet folded) and dries it. I hear the dryer ding a little while later and Open it to the overwhelming smell of piss. The towel never got washed. VOMIT. Connor needs a new wardrobe and I need a new dryer, right?
Re: Anti-Bethie Kid Post
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
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If I found a wet towel (and only a wet towel), I'd probably re-wash it, and at the very least I'd smell it to make sure it hadn't been sitting there for days. I would never throw it in the dryer with otherwise clean clothes. Why didn't he remove Connor's clothes before put the towel in?
I think fallin answered that
I did it while he was washing his feet off and changing out of his uniform.
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I think it's kinda shitty that he made you get out of bed to do it.
ETA: Scratch that, the more I think about it. That's really shitty. If this guy is going to marry you and co-parent Connor, then that means cleaning up piss when duty calls.
Mucho likes purple nails and purple cupcakes
Exactly! If I find a single item in the washer, wet or dry, I assume it's dirty because who the hell would a) wash one single item or b) empty a washer except for one single item?
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
Because he didn't want to fold them (and they were wrinkled from not being folded when they were first dried, he wanted to use the washer right away).
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
I should clarify that he didn't make (or even ask really) me to get up and clean it. He just angrily asked wtf he just stepped in. I just got up and did it.
OK. I was about to get really indignant on your behalf. Given all the hoops you have to jump through to protect his sleeping hours in the morning, the least he could do is the same for you in the evening.
I also don't get not giving a random wet towel the nose test to at least check for mildew.
Mucho likes purple nails and purple cupcakes
Yeah, I would absolutely smell it first. He could have at least pulled the clean clothes out into a basket to be folded later. It's not like they were going to magically disappear out of the dryer when whatever he wanted to wash was done in the washing machine. He was going to have to empty the dryer either way.
I'm just disturbed that Kevin moved the pee towel from washer to dryer, and since he thought it was a freshly washed towel, he probably didn't wash his hands after. Who knows how long he walked around with pee covered hands.
Wendy, I think you need to burn your house down.
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For the record, I get that this was a misunderstanding and he did apologize. It's not like this is something we're fighting about. It just makes for a revolting story.
Also, we had a big talk about the sleeping on weekends thing and got to the real root of the issue, which was not so much about the sleep. Compromises were made all around. It's good now.
I do like that the female consensus is who the eff finds one wet towel I the washer and assumes it must be clean though.
I thought Fallin was insinuating that Connor should have cleaned it up.
I take cleaning responsibilites in my house. I'm sure you will all turn an eye toward this, and I don't mean it in a "oh, poor men can't do anything right." But, my husband sort of has this chicken with its head cut off thing that he does around bodily fluids. It is much easier (and more sanitary) when I do it. He vacuumed up Andy's puke with our Dyson. My pretty, purple Dyson. It smelled like vomit every time I used it for the month or so after.
So, I too would just immediately do it without thinking.
He was quite concerned with this after we realized what happened too. He's a complete germaphobe.
Winger - I was mad about being woken up and I definitely snapped back at him. I also totally get being angry and not reacting exactly the way you should in the moment you realize you're standing in a giant puddle of urine. (he apologized for that too)
I would punch my H right in the throat for a move like that.
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OH MY GOD
Yeah, I get this. I'm the designated dog-mess-cleaner in the house when it comes to vomit and diarrhea simply because I don't barf at the sight of it. He'll clean it if I'm not home, obviously, but once when she had a little tummy trouble in the middle of the night, I hopped up to clean it without thinking twice. Same with when she ate the advil.
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
I would have let him vacuum until it went away.