{"id":7965,"date":"2011-08-26T19:31:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T03:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=7965"},"modified":"2011-08-26T19:31:42","modified_gmt":"2011-08-27T03:31:42","slug":"ask-a-man-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/ask-a-man-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask a Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

ASK A MAN #103: ABOUT GETTING A MAN TO CLEAN<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHow do I get my boyfriend to clean a little? I\u2019m a realist and I know he\u2019s never going to seriously clean something but he works half the hours I do and I\u2019m sick of being a bitch around the house.\u201d<\/p>\n

-MG<\/p>\n

\u201cDo it very slowly and don’t confuse him.\u201d<\/p>\n

-Charles Mingus Cat Toilet Training Program<\/p>\n

Never underestimate the power of pride of ownership. Every man has some thing, some totemic object of power that’s super super important to him and yet isn’t part of his anatomy. Unless a man is fully prepared to protect his Holy Grail with violent force his spirit, sensing its vulnerability, will curdle up to half its normal size and retract into his ab-domen (this may not be the proper way to pronounce \u201cabdomen\u201d but if you try it out for yourself I’m sure you’ll \u00a0agree \u00a0it’s better). I’m guessing your man has suffered a loss of his Holy Grail or is not fully prepared to defend it, so why should he care if those dirty dishes have been sitting in the bathroom since Labor Day?<\/p>\n

Now if it’s the latter case, if he still has his Grail but is not fully prepared to defend it, just go out and buy him a firearm already. I personally never bed down without my 9mm Uzi Pistol (fully loaded, safety off, and home-tooled bayonet attached) but production of this bad boy was discontinued in 1993 so even if you can find one you’ll be ponying up a big bag of pretty pennies. You’ll probably need two ponies to heft all those pennies around, but one sturdy mule could handle the load so you should just use the mule. If you don’t have the pennies or the livestock, you can’t go wrong with the Colt M1911 or the Glock 22, both of which are the single most popular gun. Since you can’t purchase bayonets for handguns, I had to make one myself using the forge and anvil I keep in my kitchen where the oven used to be and would be happy to provide you with helpful tips in bayonet forging techniques.<\/p>\n

So anyway, once he has the means to defend himself your man will realize that life is indeed worth living and that although vermin make for great target practice around the house they tend to attract the French. As we all know, the French are not only an inferior species but their very inferiority endows them with an animal sexuality and techniques that enchant and corrupt the fairer sex, so unless your man is the kind of subhuman dude who actually wants his woman to be ravished by some beret-wearing mime then he’ll start tidying up toot sweet.<\/p>\n

If your man is that kind of subhuman or, just as bad, if he has been deprived of his Grail, then you’re better off getting a new man or living in separate apartments like Woody Allen and Mia Farrow did. That whole deal seems to have worked out well for them.<\/p>\n

Question answered.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 2011 Anthony Robert Russo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"