I have started assigning nicknames to my wife's friends. Ever since one friend recommended some extremely odd carpet cleaners, I have called her "Poison" for reasons which I will not go into, since she may be reading this.
Anyway, I have extended the list to friend #2 as "Anthrax" and friend #3 as "Hemlock". Strangely enough, the names seem oddly appropriate; they are not totally off the wall. I have a few more to go. No one seems to mind. Oh! I just remembered a special friend! I shall have to find the right toxin from Aconite, Hellebore, Sumac, Jimson, or Nightshade. I am leaning to "Nightshade" right at the moment.
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Sounds like some pretty toxic individuals! (just kidding!)
Seriously though, I'm really curious to hear some examples for what you meant when you wrote "extremely odd carpet cleaners"? That's a really intriguing statement to me, for some reason or another...lol
My names are well over-the-top; most of the individuals are only mildly offensive, and I am taking some poetic licence by allowing them to be described as toxins.
The extremely odd carpet cleaners were a small family operation of good looking individuals with faintly southern accents, and bearing names like Autumn and Increase.
I expected Purtitan efficiency mixed with West Virginian no-nonsense approach to dirt removal...
I received a mediocre, nay, less than mediocre, cleaning of the carpets. And this on a recommendation that could not sing their praises high enough!
I think my wife's friend "Poison" may have been too engulfed in the whole "Walton's Mountain" moment of the carpet cleaning experience.
'"Walton's Mountain" moment'
hahaha that's too funny :)
It is funny now, but at the time I was not happy.
Of course, we have the same problem with films; when someone gives us a rave review of a film we have to stop and "consider the source" very closely.
But everybody does that; art is in the eye of the beholder. It is unusual now that I have to stop and consider the source about things like cleaning carpets
Indeed....especially when you consider the fact that when I'd written my initial comment, I'd equated the "carpet cleaners" phrase not to there actually being any human-carpet cleaners, but to being store-bought carpet cleaner products! (i.e. liquid solutions, powder)
Oh, right. You know, we indeed do a better job recommending inert and lifeless things, like Rosenthal's for carpets and the like.
However, when it comes to People and Art, beauty is in the eye of the beholder... and the eye might not see that line of dirt next to the wall.
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