aftermath

i've just spent an hour scrubbing the floor with tom, terry, george, and frank. scrubbing. the. floor. no amount of singing snippets of rogers' and hammerstein's cinderella could lighten the situation. i don't even scrub my own floor; if a piece of food touches it there's no five-second rule. it's just trash.

now, having cleaned the cinders off my cheeks and taken off my aunt jemima outfit, i'm making a proclamation:

NO SILLY-STRING AT ANY FUNCTIONS, EVER AGAIN.

this includes:

• bar/bat mitzvahs
• weddings
• funerals
• cesarian sections
• super bowl parties
• boat christenings
• good old-fashioned piano parties
• bus trips
• ski vacations
• housewarming parties
• cookouts
• camping trips

basically, if you can imagine it, don't bring silly string to it. period.