Moms, you know the pain of keeping your house clean, right? Never ending and wearing you out. Well, I wanted to get your thoughts.
I personally think it is rude to wear your shoes in someone's home. Someone's home that they have probably just cleaned up to have you over (even if it is the "fake" clean). I have taught my kids to take off their shoes upon entering someone's home and they always do (in fact they kick them off and they go everywhere which perhaps is just as rude as leaving them on). I have battled with: should I ask people to take off their shoes when they come in my home? should I leave obvious signs that I would prefer that? like a sign that says, "Thank you for removing your shoes." or a basket with a sign on it that says, "I want to hold your shoes for you." or some such thing. I always have my shoes off in my home and generally ask little kids that have just tracked through my very muddy yard to take their shoes off, but feel hesitant to do the same thing to their parents.
Now, I know the argument of "you should care more about the person than your floors", and I do, really, I do. My floors will clean. It is much harder to "clean" hurt feelings. I am good with that. If someone feels strongly about it or you are uncomfortable with your socks or your feet are really diry, then please, feel free to wear your shoes.
So, I have battled this for quite some time. Even before having kids who eat things off of my floor. Is it rude to "encourage" people to take off their shoes, is it rude to just automatically take off my shoes (and my kids shoes) upon entering a home (perhaps they would rather have my dirt then be exposed to the bottom of my feet)? Tell me your thoughts and if you are a "shoe taker offer" like me, then tell me how you deal with it...
Just a mom trying to eliminate the ever increasing need to clean my floors...
Monday, March 8, 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Starbucks
While I do not go to Starbucks on a regular basis, I do pop in occasionally for a latte on break from work. For the last two months, I have been paying close attention to the baristas and still cannot believe what I discovered.
Wasted Shots.
Whenever they made a drink with an odd number of shots, they would simply let the odd shot run down the drain. Maybe you have seen their method. Each espresso head has two spouts. If you have a drink with 2 shots, they place your cup directly under the head to catch one shot from each spout. If you only need one shot, they would place your cup off to the side, catching only one shot from one spout. You would think they would put another cup under the other spout to catch the stray shot? NO. They callously and carelessly let the shot drain off into the sewers. This is a precious commodity that some farmer worked hard to grow, just tossed aside like trash.
Starbucks worked hard to create a new coffee culture in America, where people valued coffee. However, what value does it have when it is in the sewer? I will tell you.
Caffeine in the wild.
Over the past ten years, I have noticed a sharp drop in the number of wild sewer alligator sightings in the LA area. I always thought this was due to a combination of public education about the dangers of releasing pet alligator infants and a great effort in animal control. However, the truth seems more insidious. Imagine if you will, a host of wild sewer alligators fed a steady stream of caffeine from a plethora of Starbucks dumping shots into the sewer all day long. These hopped up gators would have extremely heightened senses. Their senses are so heightened that nary a animal control agent could get within a mile of them. Granted, they are skinny and pale gators, but a danger non the less. Especially dangerous are the hours between Starbucks closing and opening the next day. Such a gator going through caffeine withdrawals is not a sight I want to witness in person.
Solution.
Whenever you visit Starbucks and see the barista wasting a shot, ask them if they can catch that extra shot and put it in your drink. It will save a gator and make the American workforce that much more productive. In addition, it might increase the sale of anti depressant drugs and sleep aids.
Wasted Shots.
Whenever they made a drink with an odd number of shots, they would simply let the odd shot run down the drain. Maybe you have seen their method. Each espresso head has two spouts. If you have a drink with 2 shots, they place your cup directly under the head to catch one shot from each spout. If you only need one shot, they would place your cup off to the side, catching only one shot from one spout. You would think they would put another cup under the other spout to catch the stray shot? NO. They callously and carelessly let the shot drain off into the sewers. This is a precious commodity that some farmer worked hard to grow, just tossed aside like trash.
Starbucks worked hard to create a new coffee culture in America, where people valued coffee. However, what value does it have when it is in the sewer? I will tell you.
Caffeine in the wild.
Over the past ten years, I have noticed a sharp drop in the number of wild sewer alligator sightings in the LA area. I always thought this was due to a combination of public education about the dangers of releasing pet alligator infants and a great effort in animal control. However, the truth seems more insidious. Imagine if you will, a host of wild sewer alligators fed a steady stream of caffeine from a plethora of Starbucks dumping shots into the sewer all day long. These hopped up gators would have extremely heightened senses. Their senses are so heightened that nary a animal control agent could get within a mile of them. Granted, they are skinny and pale gators, but a danger non the less. Especially dangerous are the hours between Starbucks closing and opening the next day. Such a gator going through caffeine withdrawals is not a sight I want to witness in person.
Solution.
Whenever you visit Starbucks and see the barista wasting a shot, ask them if they can catch that extra shot and put it in your drink. It will save a gator and make the American workforce that much more productive. In addition, it might increase the sale of anti depressant drugs and sleep aids.
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