Open invitation to vent!!!!!!

I just loved the comment made by Anonymous to last week's blog post about women and equality in the workplace. It deserves a post all its own!

Anonymous said...

The timing for this topic is amazing to me. Last night I finally arrived home from my daughter's swim meet at 10:30pm. (I drive her to school every morning at 7:15am and then go to work.) My husband had been home for at least 2+ hours having left the meet early to go home and walk the dog. He never thought to take care of the dishes or help with laundry and doesn't understand why I'm so stressed to arrive home to a messy house and then I can't sleep with so much left to do in the house. Why am I not ready for romance when I enter the house? No my man does not contribute to the housework enough at all. Thanks for letting me vent.

Dear Anonymous:

I feel for you. We all feel for you. We've been in your tight pumps with our screaming swollen feet at the end of the day, only to find more to do when we walk in the door. And there sits the family on the couch eating chips from bags you bought, leaving crumbs on the carpet which you will vacuum, unless they get scarfed up by the dog who you feed, bath, and take to the vet 6 times a year. The kitchen sink is filled with dishes of a meal you made the night before for your family, crusted baking dishes that "need to soak". The dishwasher is filled with the clean dishes you ran that morning because nobody knows "where they go". Laundry, you say? I won't even go there.

Please consider this blog post an invitation from me to openly complain, vent & vetch about the crappy deal we've made with the idea of equality. Go for it! I'll edit the really bad words out, but promise to keep the spirit of your rant.

Your friend,
Mary Rogers