Cleanliness is Next to Godliness
Why is it considered fundamental to our existence?
When you have a relative coming over the first thing that 99% of people do the night before is clean.
- To bring out the hoover and unwrap the sponges
- To break out the sprays…
- …and pretend for however many days that these relatives are staying over that the house is fit for a King.
Before this of course it would be undetectable from that of a slob. Sitting around in your pyjamas, picking crumbs off the carpet and living the best life possible. This is normal of course and acceptable across the world.
However, when you know someone is coming over to stay, the panic kicks in and you put on your best face. You make your funniest jokes and in turn, pretend to be something from which you are not.
It is in essence an excellent theatre production, in which you are the conductor and you are directing the orchestra of your own story.
The goal is nothing more than perception as realistically, most of the time by which your relatives are in attendance, you are stuck with one unavoidable truth, that they are here for one of two reasons:
- They need somewhere to stay
- or they feel obliged to see…
