Let's consider the following hypothetical situation. Your husband has all of his side of the family over for a big dinner party. Lots of people come. They have a good time. Some don't leave until 11:00pm even, that's how good of a time they're having.
The next morning, you notice one of your poinsettia plants sitting on the floor by the front entry has brown powder on its leaves. You wonder what it is. You touch it. You smell it. You deduce it is powder from a hot chocolate packet. You then remember briefly seeing a very small person holding said packet in her hand the night before. You figure it broke open and ended up on the plant. You think nothing more about it.
A week after the hypothetical situation took place, you are finally getting around to mopping the front entryway from where all the shoes were removed and wet spots dried into stains of salt deposits. As you lift up the throw rug/carpet to wipe the spots, you see more of the previously mentioned brown powder. In fact, a whole pile of it! Way under the rug. With little specks of pink (as it was the Stephen's Candy Cane variety) mushed in with the brown, now very crusty powder. It takes major muscles to scrub it off the floor, not to mention the scrubbing of the back of the rug.
Here's my question. If you were the parent of said child, and you found your child with a cocoa packet, and you found your child had made a mess of said packet, what would you have done? The child was too young to push it under the carpet by herself. Is it prudish of me to think that "sweeping it under the carpet" is not an option? Did they think I'd never find it? Good thing this is all hypothetical.
4 comments:
Posing the question in such a manner is a great way to stay true to your resolution to be nice!
Nice way of not answering Patti's question, Cher!! And no, sweeping it under the rug is not an option - getting the broom and cleaning it up is the ONLY way to take care of said problem!
Allow me to suggest a few alternative theories of the crime: If child is old enough to wander around with a cocoa packet, child IS old enough to stash it under the rug. Trust me... you're lucky you didn't find it floating in the toilet. If your rug doesn't have a rubber backing on it, the cocoa could have gotten spilled on TOP of the rug and then ground into and through the rug. With that many people coming in and out and taking on and off shoes, the rug could have been shifted, corners kicked up, and re-shifted many times during the night, causing cocoa powder that was spilled on the floor to end up under the rug. If a parent did notice it, it would probably be on the way out, as they are trying to stuff a toddler into snow attire and wrestle her out the door, so would mention to the nearest person, hoping they would help said parent out and clean it up as most people at your party didn't have small children they had to wrestle out the door.
Hypothetically.
I would have hidden it all in the plant.
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