Aussie funny guy Kinne has made a sketch about housework that basically is our lives.
The video Stranger Things – The Washing Basket posted to Facebook, has been watched over 5 million times and racked up over 35,000 comments including gems such as this:
“Annnnd there we have it! Proof! They think we are just cleaning fairies. Lucky there is some bonuses to living with males, like when you need washers changed in the taps. Oh wait that’s my job. Well when I need a picture hung, nope, me too. I know, taking the rubbish out. Oh forget it. We’re just suckers. Lucky they have d*cks.” – Sharon Mangelsdorf
And:
“Yes, I also have this amazing phenomena. But I have been studying it for some time and it has a link! Yes. In the small room by the kitchen there are two white metal boxes and one of them has a circular window. These boxes can vibrate vigorously. When this is happening the magic baskets are often near them but they are empty. It’s as if the baskets feed the metal boxes with the dirty clothes. Some how the clothes are then teletransported to the bed where they are folded . At this point the system is still learning, it’s flawed because it can’t get the clothes in the drawers. Or is it? I have found a method to advance the system. Simply leave the clothes for a day or two… And they will find their way. Honestly, try it. It works.” – Tim Colocott
I’ve been playing a long game with The Man – for more than 10 years I have pretended to be really terrible at any and all household chores in the hopes that he would eventually get sick of living in squalor and take up the domestic reigns. It was five or so years of walking around the collection of unsteeped cereal bowls in the living room and wading through the piles of laundry on the floor to get to the bed but it has paid off. I have successfully maintained total ignorance of how to operate the washing machine for our entire relationship. However, beware – for this strategy to work one must have a seriously high tolerance for mess. Not to be attempted by anyone who is not comfortable with homegrown penicillin under the sofa.
Do YOU have a magic basket in your house? Tag your Other Half to alert them of this incredible phenomenon…
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