1. If you want to rent a carpet cleaner at the grocery store, you need a credit card. If you don’ t have one on you, you will have to go home and get one because no amount of begging, pleading or flashing of boobs well-reasoned arguments will make the store manager change his mind.

2. Babies do not like the sound of the carpet cleaner.

3. Husbands/Partners, given the choice between entertaining the baby elsewhere and manning the carpet cleaner, will choose the former. Especially if it means watching The Cat in the Hat with the baby.

4. If you are wearing newish jeans, and they get damp because you are using the hand attachment on the cleaner to get at some exceedingly stubborn spots, the dye will stain the carpet and you’ll have to scrub it out with the aforementioned hand attachment.

5. If it takes you awhile to realize what’s going on with your jeans, you will have many blue spots to clean out of the carpet. At which point, you will merely take off your jeans and finish the job in your underwear.

6. This will provide much humour for your husband/partner.

7. It’s better not to think about the colour of the water that comes out of your carpet.

8. You shouldn’t leave the cleaner on the carpet while you go get a bucket to refill it because it will leak dirty water onto your now-clean carpet. The laminate is a much better place for it.

9. Puddles on the laminate are slippery.

10. A clean carpet makes me happy.

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