A Bachelor’s Common Sense Guide to Household Tips
Posted by Steve Yeich | Posted in Humor article | Posted on 06-10-2011
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This week we have a guest that we are going to interview. His name is Big Benny (he didn’t get the “big” nickname because he’s tall) and he has some helpful household tips for bachelors. At least that’s what he tells me. Actually, it was some guy who I was talking to in the park (for all I know he could be homeless.) I had nothing else to write about this week, so I thought, what the heck. Let’s see how this turns out:
Steve: Benny, you said you have some household tips, give the readers some.
Big Benny: This is one I really like because it not only keeps the house cleaned up but it also combines deep breathing which is good for the lungs. (As he says this he took a drag on his cigarette.) When the dust gets so thick that it even bothers a single guy living alone then this really works out well…
Steve: …Okay, do you want to tell us what it is?
Big Benny: Oh yeah, so anyway, the dust is really thick so you take a really deep breath (he demonstrates and coughs while doing it) and blow the dust away.
Steve: But that just scatters the dust, it doesn’t really clean anything.
Big Benny: That may be true but now it’s not so concentrated so that ants can no longer make a home out of it. Plus, now that I mention it, if there are ants on the furniture that you are cleaning you can blow them off too. It’s almost as much fun as hunting.
Steve: Interesting…
Big Benny: …Which reminds me how much I used to love to pour boiling water on a big swarm of ants on the sidewalk when I was a kid…ah memories!
Steve: Yeah, well, what little boy doesn’t like to do that? So, do you have any other hot household tips for the bachelor, and let me emphasize, if that’s all you have, that is perfectly okay.
Big Benny: Not to worry, I have lots more.
Steve: I was afraid you would. What’s next?
Big Benny: This is a really effective way of cleaning out your refrigerator, which many bachelors don’t ever think of.
(Let me point out that I’m smelling a lot of alcohol on Big Benny breath and it’s the morning, and I met him sitting on a park bench, all lending credence to the homeless theory.)
Steve: All right, I’ll bite. What is it?
Big Benny: When your fridge is so disgusting with rotten food, etc. that it is begging to be cleaned, which by the way, is the limit that has to be reached for cleaning anything in a bachelor’s home, you spread maggots in the fridge to let them eat all the crud. This is a little tip I got by watching the TV show “Bones” where they let maggots eat the flesh off of dead bodies to expose the bones. I just thought of applying it to household tips.
Steve: But then you have a refrigerator full of maggots.
Big Benny: This is the cool part. You spray them with bug killer and then sweep them out. You rid the world of some maggots and you get a clean fridge…everybody wins.
Steve: Okay then! That ‘s all the time we have…
Big Benny: Wait I have one more fast one.
Steve: Fine, go ahead.
Big Benny: Food preparation…you make a list of all the places that deliver food and tape it to the fridge.
Steve: Thanks, for the hot tips.
I got up to leave and Big Benny stopped me.
Big Benny: Wait, you have to pay me. I thought you were talking to me because you saw my “will give household tips to bachelors for food” sign.
I flipped him a quarter and I think I heard him mumble something about a cheapskate…he must have been thinking of someone else. Anyway, I told him I’ll fix him up with a date too. I’ve got to introduce him to the darnfunnyonline advice columnist, Dear Crabby, they’d make a great couple.



