Questions that keep me up at night
Clean Spot
You've surely noticed - you clean a spot on the floor, and shortly afterwards something plops right in the middle of it, necessitating another clean up for the next plop. I've always considered the relationship between a new mess being caused by cleaning something up off the floor. Why not? As soon as I clean it, it gets dirty again.
Aha, he says! It's actually a probability issue, and has nothing to do with cleaning at all. This finally came to me in the middle of the night when I awoke to the dog trying to use my head as a pillow. It just so happens that the spot just cleaned got dirty because it's in a location of activity that has a higher exposure to potential drops and plops. Extrapolating that further means that if I don't clean the dirty spot on the floor, it will have as high a probability of getting soiled again as it had if it were cleaned.
So where does all this plopping, dropping and cleaning lead me? Simple. There's no longer an excuse to NOT clean the floor. Damn!
Thursday, October 30, 2003
