March 04, 2009

That Type


This morning as I was buttering my bagel I noticed something I like to do.  I like to take on the crumbs left behind in the butter and put them on my bagel.  If there's smeared jelly in the butter, I'll take that too!  I am not afraid of a little ABC jelly on my bagel.  I'm no germ-a-phobe. What I am is an esthete.  I care too much what things look like to others.  I don't want the next person (whoever it may be-I wasn't expecting Martha Stewart in any time today, but you never know) to see the crumbs or peanut butter or jam in my butter.  I don't like the way that looks.  Like ghetto, mish-mash, family butter.  Everyone just leaves their messes around here for me to clean up.... EVEN in the butter!  And I just fall into that trap over and over and give a man a fish.  I don't teach anyone to stop messing up the butter, I just absorb it onto my bread of choice, day after day.  But the butter looks great!  

As I spread my crummy butter onto my less than worthy bagel this morning a song came to mind.  That "I'm that type a guy" song by LL Cool J.  What can I say?  I was a teen in the eighties.  I tried to recall the lyrics thinking I could switch them up a bit and insert words about slutty butter and Bimbo bread.  (a little reference from our childhood for you Shauna).  I was thinking "I'm the type a gal, who spreads the crap on her toast.  Why do I do it?  'cause I need therapy the most." 

 I had cause to smile thinking that all I could remember about the real lyrics to that song was something about how someone is the type a guy who gives her money to shop.  What does that say about me?  I must have had big aspirations as a teenager to marry a big spender someday (joke's on me there!).  So I checked out the song lyrics online and I must say this to Mr Cool J.  Shame on you!  That is one naughty song!  How dare you think it's okay to infuse the youth of my day with the idea that one should be looked up to for doing things like- doorbell ditching.  No wonder I turned out this way. 

5 comments:

Dawn Parsons Smith said...

I am a crumb butterer too! My family drives me crazy when the leave their crumbs all over the butter!

CSIowa said...

I think most moms do this. I do.

I have a friend whose husband cannot tolerate the peanut butter knife being stuck into the jelly jar. It is not enough to wipe the knife mostly-clean on the other piece of bread after you spread the peanut butter. No. You have to use a separate knife for the jelly.

There are worse things than crumb-buttering.

Kristina P. said...

Some of the songs today are SOOOOO sexually explicit, but they use all these double entendres!

Tom said...

I'm afraid my kitchen would be the poster child of ghetto butter. Two days ago I pulled 4 small butter dishes out of the cupboard. One of my kids had just stacked them on top of each other like a brick mason and made a quadruple decker mess. Why did we have 4 different butter dishes out at the same time to begin with?!! I admire your neatness.

Kelly said...

Why did we have all these darn messy kids anyways!