One of my all time favorite TV episodes was the Baggage episode of Everybody Loves Raymond.
It portrays the pinnacle of a couple’s passive-aggressive fighting with perfection.
They share a suitcase on a weekend trip.
When they return it gets placed on the stair landing.
Where it sits for days, and then weeks.
Clothes that were packed inside the suitcase they start wearing.
But no one moves the suitcase.
What does it say about me that I am playing this passive-aggressive game with myself?
I brought home my suitcase.
I placed it in the masterbath.
Where it has sat for days…6 days…almost a week.
Clothes that were packed inside the suitcase I have started wearing.
But no one moves the suitcase.
Blog-Stedman is unpacked.
The boys are unpacked.
The rest of the house has attained Nirvana-neutral status.
Yet my suitcase remains…
In the end of the Everybody Loves Raymond episode, Raymond is leaving for a weekend trip and does this:
Can anyone lend me some stinky cheese?
I also ADORED that episode!!!! Hmm… Our over 500 lbs of luggage after Christmas are unpacked… but that does NOT mean it’s all put away in a proper place… UGH, UGH, UGH!
Too funny! I haven’t watched this show in YEARS, yet I remember this episode. It really must have hit some nerves with a bunch of people, judging by the comments you’re getting.
I’ve started emptying the dirty clothes directly into the laundry room before taking the bags upstairs…but it doesn’t help. It still sits there waiting for one of us to make the first move.
so … um … have you been peeking in the window of my house or something? (not that i would EVER put stinky cheese in a suitcase … but i sure as heck would leave it sitting around forever and wear the clothes out of it. sigh)
I love that episode too!!! now that i am married it is a perfect example of the wife trying to get the hubby to do and then the hubby thinking the woman should LOL
I also ADORED that episode!!!! Hmm… Our over 500 lbs of luggage after Christmas are unpacked… but that does NOT mean it’s all put away in a proper place… UGH, UGH, UGH!
Too funny! I haven’t watched this show in YEARS, yet I remember this episode. It really must have hit some nerves with a bunch of people, judging by the comments you’re getting.
I just found my son’s suitcase from his trip to Bosnia last June. Along with a small family of rodents. Need any mice? 🙂
I’ve started emptying the dirty clothes directly into the laundry room before taking the bags upstairs…but it doesn’t help. It still sits there waiting for one of us to make the first move.
Great post!
That was my ultimate favorite episode.
Sigh.
I miss that show.
so … um … have you been peeking in the window of my house or something? (not that i would EVER put stinky cheese in a suitcase … but i sure as heck would leave it sitting around forever and wear the clothes out of it. sigh)
I love that episode too!!! now that i am married it is a perfect example of the wife trying to get the hubby to do and then the hubby thinking the woman should LOL