Our new apartment has brand new carpet.
We no sooner got moved in before my wife started saying that she wanted everyone to take off their shoes when they entered the apartment so the carpet would stay nice longer.
We’ll have to see about that.
Perhaps my wife sensed my less than enthusiastic response. Perhaps it is that she has a big heart. Whatever the reason, she gave everyone not one, but two “Get Out of Jail Free” cards (think of the board game Monopoly).
The very first day in the apartment, she brought home a broasted chicken from Costco. This particular one had more juice than normal. Now it has the normal amount…
because she spilled the rest of it on the carpet!
But, her kindness didn’t end there…
On our second night in our new apartment with the new carpet, she was sipping a glass of wine. Because there are boxes everywhere, she was taking great pains to be careful when she set the glass down. Somehow, she still managed to dump the entire glass on the carpet! She still doesn’t know how it happened.
Whatever the cause or the reason, I made sure to thank her kind and understanding response sometime in the future whenever I spill something on the carpet
