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11/20/2014 4:54:31 PM
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Life Rule "My stuff, your crap."

This is something I learned a long time ago, while rooming with a good friend of mine and it has been a consistently observable phenomena with nearly everyone who I have ever spent time with in a shared space. You (or they) look around a room (could be the bathroom, the kitchen, the living room) and there is some clutter. One person says, "this place is a mess, how come you never tidy up?" I have taken moments like that, for example a pile of things on the living room coffee table with my old roommate, or the bathroom counter with my wife. Both could look me straight in the eye, point at the surface in question and tell me, "it's a mess, clean it up!" I would look, agree that yes, it was cluttered a bit, but really, of the total amount of things that are on the counter or table, 30% or less of the things are mine, the remaining 70% or more are their things. So, I would ask them to hold on a moment, remove my items and then ask them, "okay, is it still a mess now?" The answer is/was almost always, "Nope, now it is fine." I would try to explain that all that I did was remove my minority fraction of the "clutter" and to their eyes, the whole clutter was now gone. All they could then see were "things that I put there, that belong there, because I put them there". I can not however, get anyone involved in this experiment to see, accept or agree that the "entire mess was only reduced by a fraction". Which is what I call, and shall henceforth be known as the "My stuff, your shit" rule of visual acuity. People see something that belongs to someone else and it is "why is all this shit laying about?" However, lay out items of theirs in a similar arrangement and all they see is "some of my stuff" and there is no clutter or mess. Just another thing that I have learned in life. No, it's not meant to be helpful, it sure hasn't helped me. To this day, I still get yelled at to "clean up your crap 'cause it's making it hard for me to find my stuff". True story. Perhaps you've noticed this too? Maybe you should keep an eye open for it the next time it happens to you?
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  • "Ever notice while rummaging through others peoples stuff, that there stuff is shit, while your shit is stuff?" -George Carlin R.I.P. [spoiler]One of the best comedians ever.[/spoiler]

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