Quality Time

A while ago, in an off moment, I told a friend I would help her out by doing one of her work jobs so she could take time off for a week long bike ride. The job is providing janitorial services for a dental office. I'm not very good at keeping my own house clean so why I thought I could do the dental office is crazy.

The job could only be done after 7PM, insane. Thus I found myself hanging around town after work, eating a picnic dinner in the park and watching soccer games in the fields near the office. I'm back to working part time so on Thursday and Friday, with the car already in town, I decided to ride my bike rather than fire up the truck. We had decided to continue with our picnics so I rode in earlier.

My friend said it only took an hour and a half to clean. Hmmn. The first night it took me well over two hours but by Friday I had it figured out. I was doing great, untill I accidentally tipped the mop bucket while trying to get it out of the sink, spilling hot soapy waster all over the janitorial closet and the adjoining kitchen. I took my shoes off and tried picking up the water with the mop, too slow. Then I spied the brimming dirty laundry basket. I tipped the entire contents over the huge puddle, chucking each piece of laundry, as it became soaked, into the washing machine. Luckily there was enough to sop up 95 percent of the water. I threw in some detergent, I found in a cupboard, and turned on the machine. Hopefully the workers will just think I 'm trying to do a good job and will never suspect I unwittingly almost flooded their kitchen.

I won’t be adding janitor to my list of credentials on my resume but I did enjoy riding my bike to town, eating picnic supper in the park with RJW and watching the soccer.