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Everybody Does It

in Everyday on 08/22/09


I simply can’t be the only one. Don’t you…

Taste the milk and think it’s a wee bit off, you know, it stinks like sour! So you go and ask your significant other to give it a try. Honey drink this stink. Is it sour?

I can’t be the only one to use the ol “Oh the Kids are so tired, I think we better be going…” to escape the family function that has gone on 2 hours toooo long.

Someone besides me must have hoped for rain so your Hubby’s golf game will be cancelled, or at least cut short.

I’m sure I’m not the only Mom, short on time and out of ideas, who has thrown a wiener into a bowl of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese and called it a balanced meal.

I may be the only fool who buys light popcorn and then smoother’s it in extra butter. mmmm. Hey, the lady in front of me at the McDonald’s Drive-thru today got the biggie fries and a Diet Coke. Same difference.

Of course this doesn’t make me feel better about the fact that I spent 45 minutes on the treadmill and then celebrated with a chocolate bar. Sigh.

I am SURE I am not the only wasteful human to simply discard a funkified container of Tupperware full of mystery meat instead of doing the responsible thing and oh I don’t know, washing it!

Ever turned a sock over to hide a hole? Nope, me either.

This is what passes for normal here in the Suburbs. At least I hope it does.
I’m pretty sure everybody does it.

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    Comments

    1. Joanna Jenkins says

      August 22, 2009 at 10:28 pm

      “…45 minutes on the treadmill and then celebrated with a chocolate bar…”

      We think a lot alike 🙂

      xo

    2. Kelloggsville says

      August 22, 2009 at 9:19 pm

      but extra butter of light popcorn is less calories than extra butter on normal popcorn and diet coke tastes sweeter and I NEED chocolate energy after my exercise class!! sometimes tupperware just has to be replaced so it would have been thrown out anyway and husbands main kitchen job is “will it still pass” taste tester!!

    3. JennyMac says

      August 22, 2009 at 6:35 pm

      LOL…this is great M.M.

    4. Just Breathe says

      August 22, 2009 at 5:58 pm

      No, your not the only one! And yes give me that real butter to poor on my light popcorn. We do it all the time!

    5. Gigi says

      August 22, 2009 at 4:33 pm

      Great post! Of course we’ve all done it! Each and every one and then some.

    6. mzbehavin says

      August 22, 2009 at 3:55 pm

      Tupperware is expendable…..

      That’s why socks have two sides…. for the hiding of the holes……..

      God meant the extra butter to go on the light popcorn… That’s why “Light” anything was invented…..

      for our own innovations…….

      Thanks for the chuckle!!! ( and the knowledge that I am not alone…)

    7. Elizabeth says

      August 22, 2009 at 2:59 pm

      Love it! You just freely mentioned what so many of us pretend doesn’t happen…
      I’m new to your blog. Followed you here from Momma Such. Grabbing your button. What fun!

    8. Taylor says

      August 22, 2009 at 2:41 pm

      I do the treadmill thing too!

      It’s ok, we deserve it 🙂

    9. Secret Mom Thoughts says

      August 22, 2009 at 2:29 pm

      You are not the only one. I’ve done everything in the post. I love using the kids to get out of social events early.

    10. Momma Such says

      August 22, 2009 at 1:57 pm

      Ha ha! I have done many of those things! Who ever said hotdogs in mac and cheese wasn’t a well balanced meal? ha ha ha! 🙂

      Oh, and thanks for grabbing my button! I’m grabbing yours as well! 🙂

    11. Mrs EyeCanSee says

      August 22, 2009 at 1:25 pm

      So not the only one! I go a step further with the milk. If it stink at in the carton, I pour it in a glass just to make sure the whole carton is sour. Somtimes it’s just crusty and gross around the rim but the inner milk is fine. My husband is repulsed by this habit. Whatever. No one has ever died from spoiled milk in my house!

    12. ihatemichigan says

      August 22, 2009 at 12:59 pm

      I definitely am guilty of the tupperware one. Sometimes it’s just too disgusting to even open the lid.

    13. Susan says

      August 22, 2009 at 12:42 pm

      Wieners plus mac and cheese are TOTALLY well balanced my Dear. Totally.

    14. Courtney Kirkland says

      August 22, 2009 at 11:26 am

      Oh I can easily identify with almost ALL of those things on your list. Especially throwing away the tuberware. Been there done that…more than once 🙂

    15. Elizabeth says

      August 22, 2009 at 10:54 am

      You are totally not the only one!!! I can absolutely admit to at least 90% of those points. In fact, I’ll probably be acting out the first one when I get my husband up, since I’m being nice and letting him sleep in this morning (the sour milk isn’t his punishment for sleeping in, really it isn’t!). 🙂

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