Bathroom Battlefront

Okay, so in June when we moved into this condo, it was basically disgusting!!!! Emphasis on the DIS-GUS-TING. Seriously, folks! So we (my mom and I) went to the store and dug out every combination of cleaning products possible. I must have spent at least $100 on just products to try to clean this place up. Anyway, my sister had told me to use Lysol Toilet Bowl Cleaner with Bleach to clean the toilet. Said to leave it on overnight and then - Viola!!!! - scrub clean for a perfectly white toilet bowl. Well, that was the one thing we got and tried that actually worked.

Then, with our heavy-in-iron Moscow water, I was noticing that the toilet bowls were getting yellow again. So, I bought more cleaner. I had noticed, however, that the cleaner just got to the water line and then disappeared in the water instead of cleaning the actual bowl. So I asked Dave -- casually, mind you -- this morning if he could turn off the water for me and get the water level down.

He cheakily said that it wasn't dirty enough to warrant that DEEP of a cleaning, but that I just needed to put it on it, let it sit for a few minutes, and scrub it off. I felt like he was wrong, however - long story short - he was right before in the cleaning marathon when I was freaking out about the tub being clean enough to bath babies in and spent days scrubbing it with my mom, and then he just went in and scrubbed for like fifteen minutes and had it sparkling!!!! Grrrrr. . . .

So, I told him that I hated it when he treated me like I hadn't worked on cleaning everything for days and didn't know anything.

Without me knowing what he was doing, he went in, got the cleaner, sprinkled it on the toilet, came out and ate breakfast, and then went back in and pretended to go to the bathroom while scrubbing the toilet bowl for like two minutes - TOPS. Know what -- he was right!!!! Again!!!! Not that I'm complaining about him scrubbing the bowl or anything, but sometimes it just kills me that he is so dang smart and so often right about everything.

Then again, perhaps I've found a new technique for getting out of cleaning the bathroom! ;-D