I'd love to post after all this time, but I've got nothing, people. I guess this is why people do the Friday Five, right? Unfortunately, I have personal problems with the Friday Five, so that's out. Here's a snippet to keep you all going until the old brain cranks up again:
Do you ever have those moments where you step outside yourself and observe whatever it is you are doing as though looking at a stranger?
This morning in the shower, I had one of those moments. I realized as I was scrubbing away that I was humming to myself. The song in my head? That would be the Mr. Clean jingle.
"Mr. Clean gets rid of dirt and grime and grease in just a minute! Mr. Clean works stronger longer 'cause there's Ultra power in it!" I realize it's a catchy ditty, but does this strike anyone else as a trifle...odd? Does anyone else envision the scene from the movie where the crazy protagonist has finally snapped, and she's cleaning up the blood?
Right after the thought about the movie I had a moment about the moment, a meta-moment if you will, and I thought, hmmm. It's kind of odd that I would even conceive of that, actually. I mean, Mr. Clean = crazy-cleaning-up-blood? That's not right. Maybe I really am messed up.
Now I am thinking, how many people are that self-conscious about thinking about thinking about something they were doing? What's that all about?
And now I am thinking, where will it all end? I could be adding layers to this neurosis for weeks here.
Posted by hilatron at June 16, 2003 02:28 PMMy plan was to write something to reassure you that it's perfectly normal to automatically associate homicidal blood-cleaning with the Mr. Clean jingle. But actually, no.
Posted by: EV at June 18, 2003 07:55 AMIt probably stems from all those commercials for Oxy-Clean and Tide that talk about how well they remove blood stains. Once a comedian (Carlin or Robin Williams, maybe?) said that if you have blood stains on your carpet or in your clothes, maybe laundry and housecleaning shouldn't be your biggest concern...
Otherwise I think the Mr. Clean jingle is quite appropriate for while you are in the shower...
Posted by: Susan at June 18, 2003 08:36 AMDude - I consider any day I don't end up singing Kylie in the shower and then equating it with homicidal blood-cleaning a major victory for sanity worldwide.
Posted by: Agent Courtney at June 18, 2003 01:57 PMIf the Mr. Clean song makes you think of crazy-cleaning-up-blood, we should switch to something else. I wouldn't want you to think that either of us was crazy.
Posted by: Josh at June 25, 2003 02:12 PM