You'd think someone would have noticed I was a Pod Person
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 7:34PM I have these metal kabob skewer things in my kitchen that I have never ONCE used for kabobs, but they're kind of my 'go-to' utensil for pretty much everything. Need to test a cake? Use a metal kabob skewer. Need to poke a crayon out of an oddly tube-shaped toy where your toddler lodged it? Metal skewer. Need to stab someone in the eye because there's been a broken microwave sitting in your kitchen for 5 months? Hey! I have these metal skewers!
Okay, partially kidding about that last one. Honey. Really, I was kidding.
But they are handy-dandy. Earlier I dropped a bottle lid down the drain in the bathroom sink. You know how sometimes they're the EXACT size of the drain? So they don't fall down but they won't come up easily either? I tried to get it out with tweezers, but just ended up shoving it out of tweezer reach, and then I had a go with the end of a makeup brush, but couldn't hook it. And nothing else was really thin enough, so I thought, oh! Hey! Metal kabob skewers!
So I'm attempting to pick up a plastic lid with two kabob skewers, and I'm wondering if I can sell the sludge that's on the walls of my drain to NASA as a possible alien life form, and I start composing this blog post in my head. And then I realize that I'm planning on blogging about getting a plastic cap out of my drain. So I immediately looked around for something sharp to cut my wrists with, because, hello? I MAY AS WELL JUST DIE NOW.
Also, up there? I used the word 'handy-dandy' in a sentence.
Seriously, interwebs, I used to be much cooler than this.
Well, okay, I was never cool. But COME ON!
Reader Comments (23)
I used the word handy-dandy in a sentence the other day and then realized I was talking to an adult, not one of my kids. Seriously, motherhood takes all the cool away but I still pretend :)
i use bamboo kabob skewers for many a household chore! i thought it was just me that was weird enough for that. clearly, i'm not ... there's you!
LOL... I loved this post! I don't have metal skewers, but if I did I'm sure they'd get used the same way and never to make skewers with. In fact, I could've used them the other day when Kool-Aid Kid #2 lodged a Best of Disney Radio CD in my CD player... MY CD player. Jesse McCartney, Miley Cyrus... stuck in MY CD player. I ended up using the Ginsu filet knife and carving knife to extract it (sadly, Jesse skips now... I should get a metal :-D )
LOL... I don't get it. What's wrong with handy-dandy. Just kidding. The majority of my daily conversations are with little people under the age of 4.
I had a two pronged, plastic tipped kitchen utensil that was my toilet plunger for the longest time. People used to ask what it was doing under the sink in the bathroom and then I'd have to explain through demonstration how I used it....yah. No life here!
There are plenty of ways to off yourself with metal kabob skewers! Maybe not cut your wrists, but a sharp poke in the ear outta do it.
This whole post was handy dandy!
they are also great for unlocking bathroom doors, when your child has locked it on the way out!!!
Hey it's life. Blogs are about life. Granted life can be a drain (haha) but what else are we going to write about?
Handy-Dandy Metal skewers = good for everything.
To an addicted blogger, anything can be a post! Look for my "Why is there blood in my bugars" Post! Nah, I will have to wait on that one, I still have a little material left!
Is there something wrong with handy dandy?
Damnnit! I use that saying all the time.
Hm..I'd put a slant on it: You blogged about the usefulness of a simple household item that some readers may not utilize in the most effective way. There. Now you did something great, nevermind the sink sludge. Also, have you ever had to fish something out of the shower drain? Sludge AND hair. *pukes*
Love Handy dandy...actually im kidding, that was terrible lol, i refuse to believe you were ever actually cool...
Oh, you're far from uncool. I heard myself saying "gadzooks" the other day, then looked in the mirror and saw my mother staring back at me.
Yeah, it's depressing when you realize you dress just like your mother did when she was your age.
it's motherhood that destroys the coolness. those little brats suck the life out of everything! haha
If it makes you feel any better, it was still entertaining!
I've used handy-dandy in a post before.... does that mean I'm not cool?
I have the same skewers and they are the only way I can get the bottom drawer of my dresser to open. The rider bar for the drawer sunk and I stick the skewer under it and the drawer can then slide out. we also use the skewer to open the bathroom door when little peeps accidently lock themselves in the bathroom.
You were cool.
For a minute.
And you're not alone. Sometimes I get a brilliant blog idea and a few minutes later it frightens me that I even contemplated it. Cause it was so laaaame. Not that blogging about getting a plastic cap out of your drain was lame in any way.
Never!
Are you telling me I'm not cool because I've used 'handy-dandy' before? Way to burst my bubble! (grin!!!)
I totally would have used skewers to fish something out of a drain...you know, like an earring...if I had dropped one...and had skewers handy at the time...and didn't happen to have long-nosed forceps to do the trick... ;) Unfortunately it was way before I started blogging so I wasn't in the blog mentality where everything funky that happens gets written as a blog post in my head...and promptly forgotten when I'm sitting in front of the keyboard... ;)
I DO worry about you sometimes, but understand your pain. And what the hell is up with Google Reader? None of this updated in the browser? Did you two have a tif? See? I used tif in a sentence. And now we'll die an uncool death together.
DID YOU GET THE CAP OUT?! I'm on the edge of my seat over here.
You know, kabob skewers could probably help you to slit your wrists if you pressed hard enough.