Do you ever have those moments in time that are just a little too busy. When lots of random events decide to bloom at exactly the same time. When life goes kinda mad. Well I’ve just had another one of those career defining epochs.
I was happily trying to cook tea. Pan boiling nicely. Grill turned on. Looking through the window at the washing gently drying on the outside clothes horse. Everything under control. Even time for a little air guitar listening to Kiss and then …..
For some reason the TV Speaker Bar kicked into life and decided to join in with the kitchen speaker and blast out Kiss. And I mean blast out. Deafening. It does have a mind of its own, definitely when it comes to Bluetooth. So I rushed to turn it off but couldn’t find the remote control (it doesn’t have any useful buttons on the speaker, apparently that is progress). Then a shout from the toilet…
Dad the toilet is blocked and flooding.
So I ditched trying to turn the music down and headed towards the toilet. The phone rang.
Can I phone you back, bit of a crisis here (having to shout above the music),
Running towards the toilet and the front doorbell rang.
Can you leave the parcel there ….. Apparently not and I had to sign for it. Definitely getting an evil look for listening to that type of music so loud.
Heading towards the toilet when the smoke alarm goes off. Run to the kitchen to find the grill was arc welding the once tasty food options. Turn off grill and throw the food embers outside. Then throw the smoke alarm out as well. That’s now happily screeching away on the lawn.
Head towards the toilet and the cat knocks the school iPad off the table. I try to catch it but fail. Check the damage. Screen looks slightly cracked.
Dad the toilet is flooded and I’m busting. Hawklad shouting over Kiss.
Head towards the kitchen sink to find the plunger only to find the pan was now boiling over and the top of the electric cooker is like a boating lake. Turn the pan off.
Dad I’m busting. The words almost lost amongst the dialled to 11 metal music.
Plunger now in hand. Front doorbell rings again. Can our postman leave a parcel for next door with me. Apparently he likes Kiss and went to see them 20 years ago.
Dad the cat is drinking the toilet water and I’m seriously busting.
Ten minutes later the toilet is working. Son isn’t busting anymore. Kiss is playing at less than 150 decibels. Soup has now replaced the wrecked food. I’ve got no idea who phoned. The smoke alarm is getting a free wash on the front lawn in a passing rain storm. As is the once almost dry washing.
Back to normal again.
Hahaha, I can imagine it so clearly xD Can’t you check your call list on your phone to see who called? π
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Someone phoned after that so lost the number.
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But all the calls and numbers are logged in a phone so you can see them all, they don’t get erased. Just check the circa time the call was and find the number π
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Maybe not ours. Itβs a super cheap hone but will check.
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Oh my goodness, that sounds like a handful! My chaos happens always around dinner time. Everyone wants a separate meal, and they want to “talk,” while the other is desperately trying to find something apparently I lost. Deep breath central. Glad it all worked out for you! Hopefully next time they give you some more time in between π
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You have so many to feed. I donβt know how you cope with that.
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I feel you! Yes, happens to me too.
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I guess it does.
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Uh-oh… Casa Cuckoo has infected you. I’m so sorry… βΉ
I do know how that feels. It happens almost daily here. I’m usually not cooking, and our smoke alarm got beat to pieces years ago… but toilets and noise and Zeus in the way and Gramma? Gramma? Gramma?π€―π€ͺ
You feel like your forehead should be flashing “TILT” (please tell me you understand that reference)
Did you ever get your tea?ππππ
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I was just about to ask the same! LOL
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Whatβs the state above TILT….. xxx
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I’m sorry!
I can picture all of this and I know you are breathing a sigh of relief.
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I am now.
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Lol
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Oh what a hectic morning. My sympathies Gary
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Too hectic.
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Is that your photo? It kinda looks like a plane made of clouds!
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Yes it was two nights ago. Taken on my iPhone.
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π And where was the Captain in all this?
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Digging the garden up….
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Sounds like a major fiasco to say the least.
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Major one.
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Multi-tasking!
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Doing lots of thing badly at the same time.
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Mmm, thatβs a male definition
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Definitely
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You survived! π π π
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Just about.
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Ah ha, another of those plaything of the gods moments we all so love.
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We do when they are over.
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Sometimes you really stretch credibility π
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But itβs reality, sadly….
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Sad, indeed
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Lol, seriously. I sometimes think our lives are like in a movie and it is cue this, cue that, cue the toilet flooding, cue the doorbell ringing. AHHHHHHH. Then it is like the evil stage manager gets locked back up and everything goes back to normal.
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Thatβs so true.
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Honest, having worked yoinks back in theatre, that is aye how these days strike me.
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They so do
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Zero to overdrive in a flash….I can picture it and hear it!
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It was mad.
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OMG!!!
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Funny π
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Phew!
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Was exhausting
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You know, it’s days like this that remind us that even when we don’t leave home, chaos will find us. π xxxxxx At least Hawklad had quite the spectacle to watch. Staying healthy, you two? I’m a little murky with feeling–the boys now don’t return to school until January, even though there were no cases in our district. It’s just because we’re in the same county as the state capital. Very, very frustrating for them, who were so excited. And me, but we have to roll with it because we must, right? We must stay strong!
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So sorry about school. Itβs opposite here we are in national lockdown but the schools are open. You must be so frustrated. Hope the job is going well. xxxxxx
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So long as the boys do not kill one another while I work, we will be okay. π xxxxxx You hang in there, too!
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That would be a start xxxxxx
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I am sorry to admit, but this had me laughing so much, and I must say I am kind of jealous. Hahaha. Nothing like a little chaos to l shake it up a bit. Only you can have this kind of day. And I say that with humor. . May I ask what Kiss song was blasting?π
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Chaos can be fun
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Yes!!!!!!ππ€·π½ββοΈ
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I know it was frustrating, but I do just love this post, in fact i think every post of yours ends up being my favourite.
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You have just made me smile. x
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