Caltrops - Tansin A. Darcos's Alter Ego





	[quote name="Commander Tansin A. Darcos"]I used to get up at reasonable hours, anything from 10-1 pm. But I have a cat and he has to be fed. So, every morning I have to get up, early ("early" meaing the cow-milking hours of 8:30-10:00 AM.) For the 8 1/2 years I've been living here, I've had a bucket I use to store my urine over night. I'm not about to act at 2 or 3 in the morning in which I have to slide myself over, drag and pull myself - in serious pain - into my chair, roll to the bathroom, use a cup to pee into, empty it into the toilet, then roll back and get back to bed. Instead, I'll grab a cup from the floor, pull my pants down, pee into the cup, empty it into my dedicated swill bucket ("piss pot"), drop the cup, pull up my pants, then slide back and go back to sleep. In the morning I handle my chores: Take the piss pot to the bathroom,empty it out, run water in it, empty that, clean the cat's litter box, empty the cat's water bowl, rinse it out, refill, clean out the cat's food bowl, rinse out any ants attracted to it, rinse it again, go out to the kitchen, pull out a can of cat food, pull out the ring and lid, dump the cat food in his bowl, throw the can and lid into the room's recycling wastebasket, and last but not least, if full, empty the recycling basket into the recycling bin. This morning my legs were giving me a bit more pain than usual and I was trying to get myself into the chair. I later realized I made a fatal mistake, I put the piss pot in front of my chair instead on the left side away from the bed. The bucket was close to the chair, and while getting on, I knocked it over. What a horrible mess. I've got to try to get the bucket uprighed, it looks like maybe half of it spilled. Rignt next to the cable modem, so I have to move that before the piss shorts it out. Pick up the box where about 20 roaches scamper for every direction. (I knew about the problem but right now I can't do anything about it; I can't apply boric acid - which I have - when a cat walks in that area.) Anyway, I keep a mop in my shower in case of emergency. Goddam son-of-a-bitch landlord took my mop when he cleaned the place last week and didn't put it back! So until I can go to Home Depot or Family Dollar I don't have a fucking thing to clean up the mess. There's a bus in half an hour. [/quote]