So I came home to find there was some sort of gas emergency in my neighborhood and the gas repair had to come into my house to turn my meter back on and test the lines.
So first he's in the basement where I am stockpiling cardboard boxes because I'm hoping to move soon. So he now thinks I am a hoarder. Then he has to pull out the lower drawer of my oven, even though my stove is electric. Apparently I have never pulled it out and this is what was back there: 5 cat toys (balls and mice), 8 christmas ribbons (my cats once broke into my stash), lots of styrofoam peanuts, and a cracker. And a lot of dirt.
Then he had to go check out my upstairs furnace, even though I am 99.9 percent sure that it is electric. But he asked if I was positive that it wasn't dual heat, and I couldn't be 100% sure. Well, the heat pump is in my walk in closet and the doors are covered by clothes, so I had to half empty the closet in a hurry. Clothes everywhere. And my closet is not organized on a good day.
So gas guy probably thinks I am dirty hoarder with an excessive amount of clothes. Only the last part is true.
I would so love to be the type of person who could have people drop by with no notice and not be embarrassed.
I'm sorry this happened to you but LOL at the oven. I have a gas stove but can count on one hand the number of times I've used the broiler draw in tge past 10 years (twice). And I have 2 cats so I can only imagine what's hiding behind mine. If it helps any, I'm sure he's seen worse.
I had a similar emergency one time with water and the nice man that showed up just asked me if I thought there was a possibility that there were live snakes (!!) in the area.
When you are a neat freak and always try to keep the house neat and semi-clean but you have 3 kids so you're really just like a hamster in it's running wheel, but the few times that you're just like "screw it all", that's when unexpected family or friends drops by.
When you are a neat freak and always try to keep the house neat and semi-clean but you have 3 kids so you're really just like a hamster in it's running wheel, but the few times that you're just like "screw it all", that's when unexpected family or friends drops by.
I used to have to do home visits and the things I saw were definitely unbelievable.
Go on...
Ok the worse one I remember, I was literally crawling out of my skin...and like I said, I've seen some unbelievable things, but this was bad...
There were bugs EVERYWHERE. Crawling on the table while we were doing paper work, crawling on the walls, the floor, literally EVERYWHERE.
I kept shaking my legs under the table so they wouldn't crawl on me. The lady had to fill out paperwork and I almost contemplated making an excuse to go to my car while she filled it out because I swear it felt like she was taking 10 million years to complete it as I sat there with bugs crawling all around dying inside.
And there were all sorts of bugs. It was a multi-cultural gathering of bugs...ants, roaches, unidentifiable creepy crawlers. I never did an interview so quickly. I rushed out of there and made sure no bugs followed me and put my bag in my trunk just in case.
Ok the worse one I remember, I was literally crawling out of my skin...and like I said, I've seen some unbelievable things, but this was bad...
There were bugs EVERYWHERE. Crawling on the table while we were doing paper work, crawling on the walls, the floor, literally EVERYWHERE.
I kept shaking my legs under the table so they wouldn't crawl on me. The lady had to fill out paperwork and I almost contemplated making an excuse to go to my car while she filled it out because I swear it felt like she was taking 10 million years to complete it as I sat there with bugs crawling all around dying inside.
And there were all sorts of bugs. It was a multi-cultural gathering of bugs...ants, roaches, unidentifiable creepy crawlers. I never did an interview so quickly. I rushed out of there and made sure no bugs followed me and put my bag in my trunk just in case.
I can still remember it so vividly.
Noooooo.
I have to turn off some episodes of Hoarders because I get all itchy at the bugs. I would have died.
When you are a neat freak and always try to keep the house neat and semi-clean but you have 3 kids so you're really just like a hamster in it's running wheel, but the few times that you're just like "screw it all", that's when unexpected family or friends drops by.
Right there is where you lost me.
I am!
It's gotta be part of my OCD tendencies or something. I've always been like this. Just because one has kids doesn't mean past habits just go away lol. I've learned to let go a lot obviously, but I still get very frazzled from time to time.
It's gotta be part of my OCD tendencies or something. I've always been like this. Just because one has kids doesn't mean past habits just go away lol. I've learned to let go a lot obviously, but I still get very frazzled from time to time.
I need to have meetings for people with OCD at my house so it'll be tidier.
Ok the worse one I remember, I was literally crawling out of my skin...and like I said, I've seen some unbelievable things, but this was bad...
There were bugs EVERYWHERE. Crawling on the table while we were doing paper work, crawling on the walls, the floor, literally EVERYWHERE.
I kept shaking my legs under the table so they wouldn't crawl on me. The lady had to fill out paperwork and I almost contemplated making an excuse to go to my car while she filled it out because I swear it felt like she was taking 10 million years to complete it as I sat there with bugs crawling all around dying inside.
And there were all sorts of bugs. It was a multi-cultural gathering of bugs...ants, roaches, unidentifiable creepy crawlers. I never did an interview so quickly. I rushed out of there and made sure no bugs followed me and put my bag in my trunk just in case.
Ok the worse one I remember, I was literally crawling out of my skin...and like I said, I've seen some unbelievable things, but this was bad...
There were bugs EVERYWHERE. Crawling on the table while we were doing paper work, crawling on the walls, the floor, literally EVERYWHERE.
I kept shaking my legs under the table so they wouldn't crawl on me. The lady had to fill out paperwork and I almost contemplated making an excuse to go to my car while she filled it out because I swear it felt like she was taking 10 million years to complete it as I sat there with bugs crawling all around dying inside.
And there were all sorts of bugs. It was a multi-cultural gathering of bugs...ants, roaches, unidentifiable creepy crawlers. I never did an interview so quickly. I rushed out of there and made sure no bugs followed me and put my bag in my trunk just in case.
I can still remember it so vividly.
I have a family member with a home like that. We've had to develop a system for visits including plastic bags, raid, and hot washes in the washing machine. What I hate most every time is deciding if I want to wear shoes the protect my feet, or flip flops where I can tell for sure I'm not taking home any roaches. Generally I opt for the flip flops, even in the snow. I'd rather have roaches crawling on my bare feet than bring them home with me.
And there were all sorts of bugs. It was a multi-cultural gathering of bugs...ants, roaches, unidentifiable creepy crawlers. I never did an interview so quickly. I rushed out of there and made sure no bugs followed me and put my bag in my trunk just in case.
I hope you burned your clothes afterwards! because roach eggs.
And there were all sorts of bugs. It was a multi-cultural gathering of bugs...ants, roaches, unidentifiable creepy crawlers. I never did an interview so quickly. I rushed out of there and made sure no bugs followed me and put my bag in my trunk just in case.
I hope you burned your clothes afterwards! because roach eggs.
Ha! No I didn't burn my clothes afterwards because like I said I was often in houses with questionable hygiene. So I'd have to burn my whole wardrobe. Our supervisors always just instructed us not to take anything like bags in to the homes so we didn't bring any friends home and if we did bring a bag to put it in our trunk and then shake everything out before going home.