Redecorate &
Spam In Your Can
June, 2003
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First things first...... Because the school year is ending-- I thought it only
fair to put forth a test to all you loyal readers. Don't worry -- it's
not a REAL test---it's only a quiz. This is simply a psychological
questionnaire for those of you who are contemplating doing some decorating or
remodeling over the summer. The answers are at the end of the quiz... no
peeking!
The Redecoration Quiz
The main reason I am redecorating my home is:
A.I feel that I can keep people out of my house by constantly repainting and
moving furniture.
B. I feel this is the most painful and self destructive behavior I can manage
on my budget.
C. You got a problem with that?
D. I feel that my home is an expression of my personalities.
E. I want to hide the evidence.
I get most of my decorating ideas from:
A. The set of the "Jerry Springer" Show.
B. Mr. Roger's house.
C. The storeroom in a taxidermy shop.
D. Motel 6.
E. Police headquarters.
When I walk into a room, first thing I look for is:
A. Two exits.
B. The composition tags on all the furniture.
C. Stuff I don't like.
D. A rocking chair facing a blank wall.
E. Hidden microphones.
My favorite motif is:
A. Haunted house-- Sharp contrasts, odd angles and lots of dark corners.
B. Ikea Catalog-- Whatever is in their catalog this week--- belongs in my
house today!
C. Hunting Lodge-- Say it with antlers, moose heads, mounted fish or anything
else I can kill with my own hands.
D. Minimalism -- Simple, and so easy to clean --so I can do it several times a
day.
E. Neutral-- Beige covers a multitude of sins.
The last time I redecorated, it was because.....:
A. I just moved in, and there was this aura of negative energy left by the
former owner/tenant.
B. The Smithsonian Institution seized all my furnishings for an exhibit they
created on "bad taste."
C. My blind relative figured out just where everything was in the house.
D. It was Tuesday
E. I wanted to sell the place, and Lt. Columbo came by looking for clues.
For me, the hardest part of redecorating is:
A. Letting strangers into my house. How do *I* know that they really are
painters?
B. Blending, blending, blending! It's all gotta match!
C. Getting somebody else to pay for it.
D. Getting the voices in my head to agree on a color for the bathroom.
E. Disposing of the bloody carpet, and digging bullets out of the plaster.
My favorite place to shop is:
A. Ebay..
B. Bloomies!
C. My neighborhood sidewalks on garbage night.
D. Kmart -- It's Martha Stewart's Idea Center!
E. Houses of rich people on vacation.
My choice for "window treatments" are:
A. Blinds-- so I can peek out and watch the illegal activities of my criminal
neighbors.
B. Frilly lace curtains with flowery valances that match everything from the
sofa to the bathroom towels.
C. Plastic "shrink wrap" and duct tape.
D. Tinfoil- to keep out the cosmic rays.
E. Old bed sheets and iron bars.
My favorite floor covering is:
A. Creaky bare wood-- it's safer.
B. Persian and Oriental throw rugs with tasseled edges and cute
patterns.
C. Ceramic tile, it's easy to clean--- with a garden hose.
D. Wall-to-wall cut pile carpeting with a pattern so complicated that it could
put you into a trance if you look at it long enough.
E. Concrete.
How to score your test... Count up your A's, B's,C's,D's & E's
If most (or all) of your answers were.....
A. Then.....You are a paranoid sociopath, and you should give up on the
idea of redecorating your domicile and simply move into a bomb shelter. You
will be a lot happier in there with your 3 foot reinforced concrete walls and
an airlock to keep you safe from the rest of humanity who are out to get you
anyway.
B. Then.......You are a masochist. You are so bent on an idyllic life that you
are going to destroy yourself . It would be far cheaper to move into a
retirement home and spend your days watching old movies from the 30s and 40s
and feeding your delusions, then it would be to schlep from store to store
looking for chintz, prints and doilies.
C. Then....... You are obviously a bachelor. All you need to complete your
decor is to put up your gun rack and post on the wall copies of all the
restraining orders that are lodged against you, you lazy sadistic wretch.
Your most common decorating ideas are waiting for you in the gorilla house at
the local zoo. Excessive testosterone is not conducive to creating the kind of
decor that will attract members of the estrogen crowd- if you know what I
mean-- and you probably don't.
D. Then....... Compulsion is your thing. It's not so bad slipping in and out
of reality-- if you get the right meds. You might think about moving into a
mobile home (they are encased in metal anyway) down by Area 51. Think about
all the money you will save on tinfoil alone. As a bonus, most mobile homes
have hypnotic floor coverings and cheap grainy paneling, so it should be easy
for you to convince yourself that you are living aboard an alien
spacecraft.
E. Then..... Listen, you miscreant--- depending upon the level of your
depravity, either the county, the state or the feds have a place for you --
all made up and waiting for your check-in. Who knows? Maybe in six months or
so Martha Stewart will stop by and give you some creative decorating ideas for
your cell --- er--- habitat. You could make a decorative Hawaiian palm tree
centerpiece from your tin cup, a handful of coffee grounds and some old
plastic drinking straws. Remember, that's MY idea, not hers.
The bottom line is this...... if you are thinking about redecorating----
don't! Redecorating is a perilous and maddening journey into the realm of
reorganizing the psyche. Hundreds of would-be redecorators have flipped out
right there in the paint department of the local home improvement center. I
won't even talk about colors-- I will stick to white. There is: white,
off-white, trim white, bright white, flat white, satin white, eggshell white,
blinding white and plain white. And then you can tint the stuff into billions
of different and unmatchable shades. You put it on the wall and it runs like a
banshee. The only thing it covers in a single coat is your skin. What are the
first four letters in the word paint? I rest my case.
Wallpaper? AAUUGGHHH!
Are you out of your mind? It is easier to get the bubbles out of molten steel
than it is to 'trim up' a strip of wallpaper. When you are done hanging
wallpaper, you will spend the next year wondering if you got the seams right.
Did you hear the story about the family that hung a room full of flowered
wallpaper upside down and did not realize it until the job was done? They
ended up moving to Australia. Coincidence?
You can put up paneling if
you want to make yourself believe that you are living on the inside of a
cigar box.
Put down your own wall-to-wall carpeting-- I
dare you. As far as I know the tools used to stretch and tack down
carpet were designed by the Marquis De Sade. You use tack strips that look
like something from the Chamber of Horrors, and a 'stretching tool' that you
are supposed to use by bashing it with your knee. So you spend an afternoon
stretching the new carpet by ramming your kneecap into the silly thing, then
in three months you wonder why every time you stand up-- your knee joint
sounds like somebody is popping a bag of microwave popcorn. It is easy to spot
retired carpet installers-- they are the guys that have one knee so large that
it wont fit easily down their pant leg.
Why am I going off like this? Guess! We are redecorating!
Yes, sir! The Maloney tract ranch is getting a fresh coat of stress. Wendy is
piloting the brushes and rollers and I am writing about it. This is the extent
of my
house painting abilities. Painting requires skill, practice and patience--
none of which I possess. I can set up a corporate computer network, work
inside an atomic accelerator, tear down and rebuild an automobile engine---
but I can't paint a house. I can spray paint a car (reasonably), but when it
comes to doing a wall, I might as well drink the paint and get it over with.
Gotta go... My Spamusol in wearing off.....