Unwanted Guests, Part 3
This week we’ll round out the trilogy of Unwanted Guests.
Only this week, the Unwanted Guest is not in insect or rodent form. It’s a little more amorphous than that.
This Unwanted Guest is never seen, but he leaves his calling card everywhere in the house, especially in the kitchen.
Let me explain.
It’s morning time in the Lunghi household. Ernie has just emptied the dishwasher. I come down for breakfast and open the utensil drawer, and there it is.
“Umm…you know,” I say to Ernie, “I really appreciate that you emptied the dishwasher, but these utensils are just haphazardly tossed into the drawer. They are just strewn about all willy nilly. Small forks mixed in with big forks, small spoons mixed in with big spoons. Spoons mixed in with knives, mixed in with forks.”
Ernie says, “Willy Nilly was here? Oh no, not Will Nilly. I’ll be on the lookout for him to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”
Problem is, Willy Nilly keeps showing up. Ernie never seems to be able to corral him. He seems pretty elusive.
Willy Nilly has a field day in our kitchen. It’s not just the utensil drawer. It’s also all the other drawers. Despite my best efforts to keep serving forks separate from serving spoons separate from spatulas, Willy Nilly comes in and mixes them all up. He also never keeps them neat and straight in the drawers. They are always askew.
Willy Nilly does the same thing with the dishwasher. Nothing is in there properly. Glasses on their side, utensils laying atop the utensil holder vs in the holder, plates and bowls cockeyed. I always have to rearrange the dirty dishes in the dishwasher.
“Hon,” I say, “Looks like Willy Nilly was here again. Just look at how the plates, glasses and utensils are not put in there properly. I’ve got to re-arrange everything.”
“Willy Nilly, again,” he asks? “I thought he was gone for good. I will definitely have to look into that some more.”
I thought stink bugs and rodents in the wall were tough challenges. They got nothing on Willy Nilly. He has thus far evaded all efforts of eradication.
But hope springs eternal. I keep straightening the kitchen drawers, the dishwasher, and the other areas of the home where he makes an appearance. Perhaps one day Willy Nilly will get the message and morph into the much preferred Neat N. Orderly.