Straight From Wikipedia
So I googled “Bachelor Pad” to find a funny picture for this post about my apartment, and instead I found this from Wikipedia
“Some bachelor pads are stereotyped as being messy, with old food and dirty dishes and clothing being strewn about the floor, sinks, and other areas in proximity to places where they are useful (examples being dirty clothes piled up near a washer and/or dryer, dirty dishes in a sink, or moldy food in a refrigerator) — often to the disgust of women related to or involved with the men living in “pads.” Several men may share a pad and its expenses for financial reasons or friendship, which generally stereotypically results in worsened living conditions compared to one person’s tenantship. Pads may also be the sites of wild parties.”
This is hilarious, and most of the time, oh so true. This, sad to say, is pretty accurate of my living conditions at the moment. The only difference, is that I’m not living with anybody else, and my fridge doesn’t have any moldy food (it did a couple of weeks ago). I actually am procrastinating going home and cleaning my “pad” which I plan to do in a few minutes. And this is probably more than you need to know
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The next logical question being “why”? Messy apartments are NOT a direct result of the laziness of the tenants. I have some really great non-lazy guy friends for whom dirty dishes are as kryptonite. Is it that all these men are too used to having a mother pick up after them? Has my gender ruined mankind forever by not forcing them, as toddlers, to wipe down their high chairs? Should we make the ten-year-olds spit-shine their bicycles? Should every girlfriend of a teenage boy refuse to go out with them until they clean their rooms?
Who can stop the madness?!
No, but really…. can someone explain to me the “why” behind the mess?
Walking in the rain: You know, I think your right. Most of the time, messyness is just plain lazyness. But there are also other factors. One in particular I can think of right now is “priorities.” For example, bill comes home from working a ten hour day at the office, he come’s into his apartment and his mind and stomach are saying “FOOD”. So he eats some food and then he notices that his apartment is very messy. Now here is the place men and women differ greatly. I’m not saying it’s right or wrong, just different. Bill sees his apartment, but he was also wanting to work on his car and go to the gym and work out. Lazy? not necessarily, but he would just rather work on his car and go lift weights. By the time he gets done, there’s no way he feels like cleaning. I think a messy place would bother a lot of women so bad that they would have to clean before they did anything else or they would be bugged. Just one example I thought was kind of fun. I have more thoughts on this…
I was thinking about this as I was *cough* cleaning last night…. Maybe it’s also a reward thing. Women actually find a clean living area rewarding. We get a small kick out of shiny pans and mold-less showers. If men have other priorities AND there is no reward-based motivation why the heck would they clean their apartments?! Personally I like cleaning other people’s spaces so my guy friends just wait until I come over. They can go work out and I get a buzz off scrubbing out their sinks.
This is why God created men AND women.