{"id":4498,"date":"2010-09-17T08:53:59","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T13:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=4498"},"modified":"2010-09-17T08:55:31","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T13:55:31","slug":"in-which-the-universe-demonstrates-a-sense-of-humour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2010\/09\/17\/in-which-the-universe-demonstrates-a-sense-of-humour\/","title":{"rendered":"In which the Universe demonstrates a sense of humour"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span>t went something like this:<\/p>\n

*ring ring*<\/p>\n

Hello?<\/em><\/p>\n

Hey, Universe, it’s DaniGirl calling.
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\nOh hey, DaniGirl! Whattup?<\/em><\/p>\n

Oh, you know, the usual. Crazy week here, even crazier than our normal kind of crazy.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I hear ya. I’ve been a little busy myself.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yeah, that’s kind of why I called. I wanted to talk to you about your mischievous ways.
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\nWho, me?<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes, you! You’re messing with me again! You know we’ve been trying to sell the house for three weeks now, and you know we’ve been absolutely killing ourselves keeping the place in perfect condition.
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\nIt’s true, I’ve been very impressed with the improvements to your housekeeping skills. Another couple of weeks and you’ll have that whole bedmaking thing down pat.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yeah, well, we’ve certainly had a lot of practice. With just shy of 20 showings, you figure maybe two or three hours of cleaning per showing, that’s a good 60 or 70 hours invested in cleaning the house in the past three weeks.
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\nSounds like a full time job.<\/em><\/p>\n

It really has been. So, that’s kind of what I was thinking about, that maybe there was a little intentional irony on your part yesterday.<\/p>\n

I thought you’d be happy with how that all came out!<\/em><\/p>\n

Oh, don’t get me wrong, we’re thrilled. But seriously? When the doorbell rang a half an hour before the scheduled appointment, I didn’t even hear it because I was still vacuuming the bedrooms. It was the dog barking that alerted me to the fact that someone was on the porch.
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\nYeah, the dog was pretty excited. I can’t believe you stuffed her in the garage.<\/em><\/p>\n

Well what was I supposed to do? They showed up early, and I had been running late. There were still breakfast dishes in the sink, and the vacuum cleaner was sprawled across the bedroom floor. At least I’d started by cleaning the bathrooms and made sure all three toilets were flushed!<\/p>\n

It was nice that they didn’t make you leave the house.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yeah, that was nice. It was kind of fun eavesdropping on them while I put on my shoes to go wait on the porch. When I heard her say, “Ooo, it’s big<\/em>!” I was feeling pretty good. I was feeling a little less good about being trapped on the porch in the pouring rain on such a miserable day, though.<\/p>\n

Well, they didn’t leave you out there for long, at least.<\/em><\/p>\n

True enough, and it was kind of nice chatting with them. I know I probably should have just kept completely quiet, but I couldn’t help but fawn over their adorable little 3 mos old baby.<\/p>\n

So since it all worked out in the end, what exactly are you complaining about?<\/em><\/p>\n

Hey Universe, don’t play coy with me. You know perfectly well what I’m talking about. I follow the conventions set forth by the stager and the real estate agent and the whole house-selling machine to a “T” for three painful weeks, and the first time I accidentally break the rules, we get an offer. What’s up with that?
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\nJust keeping you on your toes, DaniGirl. And you’d best not mess with me, if you want this conditional sale to firm up so you can move to your fancy new house in Manotick.<\/em><\/p>\n

Um, yeah, I see your point. Okay, Universe. Thanks for the, um, lesson. I think. Have a nice day!
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\nBye, DaniGirl.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It went something like this: *ring ring* Hello? Hey, Universe, it’s DaniGirl calling. Oh hey, DaniGirl! Whattup? Oh, you know, the usual. Crazy week here, even crazier than our normal kind of crazy. Yeah, I hear ya. I’ve been a little busy myself. Yeah, that’s kind of why I called. I wanted to talk to … Continue reading “In which the Universe demonstrates a sense of humour”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4498"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4503,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498\/revisions\/4503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}