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Ten-Word Tuesday.

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“Pleeeeease, you call—but here’s exactly what you should say.”

Bossy typically attends to all the tasks in her life with the exception of one: phoning. Or would that be calling? Is phoning the equivalent of saying you itch something instead of scratch something? Is it the equivalent of saying you need to Hoover, instead of vacuum? Bossy isn’t certain, but one thing is clear: she hates the telephone.

And she’s not strictly talking about hideous business calls, placed to companies like Verizon to complain about spotty Internet service. Bossy is even talking about calling her friend Martha.

This is why Bossy pushes the responsibility of all phone-related activity to her husband, where responsibility equals having to wave Bossy away because she is standing right there miming things she wants her husband to say.

Which is what today’s Ten-Word challenge is all about. In exactly ten words, can you please tell Bossy who performs your dirty work, and what that loathed task is?

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  8. And,

    I just want to say, that I am hanging on a thin thread wondering what happened to the family tree.

    Between Jason’s “despair” and the foreshadowing of trouble with your family tree, my nerves have lost their patience.

    Just saying. 🙂

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  10. I despise yardwork so that gets left to hubby. (Everything indoors is my job.) So if we’re in the car and he says, “Hey, look, that woman is mowing the lawn,” I say, “Wow, her husband must scrub toilets.”

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  17. Does Bossy do my dirty work? I don’t think so.

    You wrote, can you please tell Bossy who performs your dirty work…rather, can you please tell Boss who in your family performs the dirty work. Prepositions are like decimals, got to use use all your decimals.

    FYI: I say, “Bonk the horn,” “Go make groceries,” “It’s in the Frigidaire.”

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  19. Husband: ALL phone calls, managing “the help” and cat litter

    (Help = cleaning person, lawn guy(s), car maintenance, etc. Most of which require a phone call to manage)

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  40. I have never emptied the diaper genie – my husband has done it every week for 16 months. I just can’t handle that weird chain of little packages of poop. He also has to do the dishes when I cook, which isn’t often.

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  51. hubby does the cat box….I do everything else.*

    *that’s not entirely true….hubby is a great daddy and does a lot of the wiping up that 3 kids require.

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  62. Lawn mowing, fish tank cleaning, garbage cans to curb = husband-dear.

    PS I had no idea this list was so short…I sure do a lot of stuff around here!

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  82. Hubby is packing up the house so we can move 🙂

    (and yep he does all the phone calls cause I’m a chicken)

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  89. Sorry, I didn’t really rock that “ten word” part. Let me try that again:

    My wizard husband empties diaper genie’s pleasant packages of poop.

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  114. I carried & birthed child; hubs empties her diaper pail.

    (It’s the least he can do; I tell him this as I lift my shirt to show him the stretch marks anytime he balks.)

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  132. My husband has to make all returns. I shop like people test drive. I take the stuff home for further consideration and if the purchase gets rejected he does the returning.

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  140. “Babe, change the baby NOW or no more bee jays.”

    (May also substitute “change the litter” or “empty the trash” or “wash the dishes” or “clean the fridge” or “gimme the remote” or “scratch my back” for “change the baby.” Same threat, in any case.)

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  152. I wish that I could get this out of my head…
    I’M A FOOL TO DO YOUR DIRTY WORK OH YEAH…
    I DON’T WANNA DO YOUR DIRTY WORK NO MORE…

    10 words:
    Not much dirty work around here, so I do it.

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