You’ve heard of retweet…reiterate…and regurgitate. Well, this is similar….this is a revamped blog. And so it goes……….
In every household there are chores that need to be completed…things to be washed, things to be repaired, things to be cleaned, things to be put away. And with every couple…there is always that question: Who’s responsible for getting it done? Who’s chore is it, anyway? For some…the decision isn’t so cut and dry. But for my brother in law…the decision is cut, dry, and pasted.
My brother-in-law has created a unique division of labor for married couples that works perfectly…for him. It’s an animal classification system...and not a Kingdom, Phylum, or Class type. It’s more specific…a bull work vs. squirrel work classification system. Let me explain………….
Bull work…is work to be done by the man of the house…and includes such jobs as heavy lifting, lawn mowing, cutting down trees, shoveling snow…you know, the big physical jobs. Squirrel work is smaller, detail work and to be done by the woman of the house….such as scheduling appointments, cooking dinner, washing dishes, vacuuming the floor, dusting the furniture, cleaning the toilets. Need I say more.
And seeing PaulA has the same genetic make-up as my bro-in-law….PaulA is totally on board with this division of labor. So for instance, da wife (uh, me) should ante up for jobs like the laundry. After all, washing, folding, and putting away laundry has “squirrel work” written all over it. BUT if the washing machine needed to be moved (so I could clean behind it)…that’s bull work.
Squirrel work is ironing the clothes and hanging them in the closet. Bull work is building a new closet. Getting the picture?
A very interesting thing about bull work is that sometimes bull work requires other bulls to get together to do it. The bulls congregate, put their bull heads together, get a case, just in case they get thirsty…and talk about how the bull work should be done.
Anywhooooooooo………
It seems to me the squirrels have a lot more nuts to take care of…and a lot more grunt work. I think this so-called division of labor is just plain Bull.
In every household there are chores that need to be completed…things to be washed, things to be repaired, things to be cleaned, things to be put away. And with every couple…there is always that question: Who’s responsible for getting it done? Who’s chore is it, anyway? For some…the decision isn’t so cut and dry. But for my brother in law…the decision is cut, dry, and pasted.
My brother-in-law has created a unique division of labor for married couples that works perfectly…for him. It’s an animal classification system...and not a Kingdom, Phylum, or Class type. It’s more specific…a bull work vs. squirrel work classification system. Let me explain………….
Bull work…is work to be done by the man of the house…and includes such jobs as heavy lifting, lawn mowing, cutting down trees, shoveling snow…you know, the big physical jobs. Squirrel work is smaller, detail work and to be done by the woman of the house….such as scheduling appointments, cooking dinner, washing dishes, vacuuming the floor, dusting the furniture, cleaning the toilets. Need I say more.
And seeing PaulA has the same genetic make-up as my bro-in-law….PaulA is totally on board with this division of labor. So for instance, da wife (uh, me) should ante up for jobs like the laundry. After all, washing, folding, and putting away laundry has “squirrel work” written all over it. BUT if the washing machine needed to be moved (so I could clean behind it)…that’s bull work.
Squirrel work is ironing the clothes and hanging them in the closet. Bull work is building a new closet. Getting the picture?
A very interesting thing about bull work is that sometimes bull work requires other bulls to get together to do it. The bulls congregate, put their bull heads together, get a case, just in case they get thirsty…and talk about how the bull work should be done.
Anywhooooooooo………
It seems to me the squirrels have a lot more nuts to take care of…and a lot more grunt work. I think this so-called division of labor is just plain Bull.
2 comments:
still makes me laugh! so funny and prettttty true,but would figuring out how to fix everything be bull work? if so, i'm the best bull out there!
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