Sunday, April 15, 2007

Dust

I hate dust. It's small, but I hate it because there is so much of it and it never seems to go away. Where does it go when you "dust" anyway? It looks gone. I can't see it in the air. Everything is clean and even if I stay far away from the same place, the dust returns and more dust seems to keep coming.

Okay I get that some of the "dusting" just throws the dust back in the air to settle back down. Okay, but follow me here. When we move around, we stir up dust, and it settles back down again. It would make sense that it all distributes evenly in the room, right? Some on the desk, some on the chair, some on the floor. When I walk, I stir up the floor, some of that goes on the chair and desk too. When I sit on the chair I stir up dust and some of that dust ends up on the floor and the desk. When I move stuff on the desk I stir up dust and some of it settles on the chair and the floor. it seems to me that I'm moving dust around so that there is always dust everywhere.

I'm okay with that, really. Here's what I'm not okay with. No matter how much you clean, or how much or little you stir up, more dust always seems to appear. How is that? Try not dusting for a few months and you tell me, where did it all come from? Trust me, no matter how much dust is there when you "clean" it, or what method you use, it comes back at the same rate no matter what. Its like every house has a secret dust generator installed and someone is laughing at us.

Hey, I'd appreciate it if someone thought they knew how to get rid of all the dust. Thanks.

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