Sunday, March 26, 2006

Geschollessen

That title means "wet" I think. But I digress.
There comes a time every year for us young Jews, a special season when our parents get to use us as beasts of burden. We call this time "Pesach", which means "Pass-over", because it means you get to spend the majority of the spring time packing boxes and passing dishes down the stairs to the basement until somebody trips and you lose all your fleishigs plates in a single go. You also get to clean the whole house, under beds and couches, those dark, nasty corners in the bathroom that you didn't even know existed because of all the wet moldy towels piled on top that no one ever threw down the laundry shoot. By now, me and my brother "larry" are old enough to carry huge piles of dishes and cardboard boxes weighing something like 300 lb, so our mom has taken advantage of this special season to redo the kitchen. It's pretty much the same, except we're doing it all a few weeks in advance. Right now I'm waiting for mom to get home so we can get started on the cutlery. Wish y'all luck with the pesach cleaning! I gotta go now shes coming home.

5 comments:

Kiwi the Geek said...

Why does cleaning involve packing boxes and carrying dishes to the basement? I must be missing something.

.30cal said...

well, not only can't we eat leavened stuff on passover, but we also cant use the same dishes. so we have a whole other set of dishes, 2 actually for dairy and meat, plus two sets of silverware and pots and pans and-
oy.

Claire said...

A festival that involves cleaning and box shifting? How has my mother resisted?

Hope it's going well!

PsychoToddler said...

look! a comment!

.30cal said...

:P