Saturday 28 May 2011

A HUGE Mistake

I was watching Outnumbered with my family the other night. The one were Sue has to get the house clean because some buyers are coming to visit, but it's Friday the 13th...Know the one I mean? If not, it doesn't really matter. 
The point is, I had a sudden flashback to when I last spring-cleaned. Our house was REALLY messy, and it wasn't long before Easter, so my friends came over to help. They had nothing better to do. Well, it was fun. But then. Then we made a huge - HUGE - mistake. We offered to do my sister's room. 
Set the scene. You are standing outside a clean white door with a tin sign that has a picture of some wolves on it. It looks taken care of, so you open the door slowly. What are you greeted with? A room full of mess. Books, homework, clothes, needles: these are just some of the things spread across the floor. You can hardly see the desk, it drowns in random stuff. 
So naturally we regretted our offer instantly, but it was too late to back out now. We got to work, starting on the desk as it looked easiest. After maybe three hours the room looked like you could just about live in it without dying. For about two days. If you were a rat. 
There was one thing left to do. 
You see, my sister has a very annoying habit of stuffing things under her bed when she can't be bothered to put them back in the right place. So we had to shift the bed to one side and fish down the side of it for any stuff that shouldn't be there. We were lucky. There was no slimy, gooey stuff. But then, my friend found a little green box.
"What's this?" she asked. 
Perhaps a pill that prevent aging. No. Perhaps a pill that gives you knowledge. No. Perhaps a mank, brown, soggy, old apple. Nearly there.
In actual fact it was a box of about a dozen, manky, year-old grapes. That if my sister had found, she probably would have eaten.

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