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 love that episode too!
I died laughing at this, this is my FAVE episode as well, only second to Deb trying to hit Marie in the head with a frying pan when Marie wasn’t looking.
Anyways, LITERALLY, I just emptied and put away our suitcases from our October Florida trip 2 weeks ago!
I mean, no hurry, it’s winter and it was really just a great stroage for our summer cothes:)
You’s unpack faster if you’d have brought home a ski instructor. Keep this in mind for the future.
Yourself needs to get off her high horse and unpack that bag. Why is she just waiting for you to use it when she used it too?! How rude!
(I’m hanging at a sleepover at Blue Yonder [http://blueyonder.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/01/pajama-party-beebeemod-giveaway.html] tonight and I just TP’d your blog. Whoot-whoot!)
A week? Child’s play! I’ve got packed suitcases older than my youngest kid who’s 16! (Unpacking means the trip’s really over.) LOL
My favorite Raymond is the one where Marie sculpts a statue that looks like a vulva. Truly hysterical.
I think I would have thrown the suitcase at him before it got to that point. I don’t really do passive-aggressive.
HAHA I tell ya… that sometimes happens even with our laundry bags… like I will look over and before I know it, we have been living out of a big blue IKEA bag I used to carry our laundry upstairs the last week!
BEST EPISODE EVAH!!
No stinky cheese – it’s Friday Night Vino here and I need it.
However, I do have an abundance of plastic grocery bags if you need to take a weekend trip anytime soon…