Have you ever had one of those weeks where you're tired of doing everything for everyone? There are times when you've just totally had it.
If you too are a mom with a twisted sense of humor, chances are you've thought about getting revenge on your family for constantly putting so much on your plate. It's one thing when there are things they genuinely need your help with. It's a whole other thing when you find yourself with a million things to do for them because they just don't feel like doing them.
One mom lived out her dreams of revenge by deciding to just stop. It started with her boycotting doing dishes, then graduated to laundry and just about everything else she was spending way too much time doing before. The results of this standoff were truly glorious, and she was gracious enough to share them on Twitter, where we can all live vicariously through her while side-eyeing our own kids.
A mom who goes by @MissPotkin on Twitter decided to go on strike after getting tired of her family not doing their share around the house.
"Two days ago, I decided to stop doing the dishes. I make all the dinners and I am tired of having to do all the cleaning too. SINCE THEN this pile has appeared and at some point they are going to run out of spoons and cups and plates," she shared.
"Who will blink first? Not me."
By the next day, the situation was already getting dire. "They've used the last of the big bowls and they’ve run out of spoons," she wrote.
"No one is saying anything about the big pile but I can hear their brains ticking. No, family, I will not be loading the dishwasher today."
She watched her family start resorting to desperate measures, but she did not cave. She later revealed that she also started boycotting laundry, and that was turning into a whole other situation.
"Let me know when you want to talk about the fact that I stopped doing the laundry too," she noted.
"It's getting a bit post apocalyptic. The piles are everywhere."
Then mom shared the beginnings of what would turn into the saga of the death sausage.
"There is a pan on the cooker with a single sausage in it. It's been there for two days. I can't look at it because it's turned the colour of the man that washes up in Cast Away," she wrote.
She even let the toilet paper supply deplete. Every person for themselves.
"The last of the loo roll in the downstairs loo was used at 7:04pm last night. It hasn’t been replaced," she said.
"They downstairs loo is now out of action for anyone that remembers. For anyone that doesn't…god help them."
Mom tried to escape from the mounting mess around her by taking a relaxing shower. But is the shower really relaxing if you know half of what's in it should have been thrown out days ago?
Mom tried to find the humor in the literal hot mess her family was slowly transforming into. While you could tell she was enjoying herself, you can also feel that sense of "Will they ever do anything?" mounting within her.
Mom waited until the kitchen was empty and checked back in with the sausage of death and, yup, still horrifying.
"This place is a hazard, as you can see. Every time I'm in here, I want to die a little bit because that pan, the pan with the sausage of death, just — it's tormenting me. Look at it, it looks like a little poo," she shares in a video.
"Oh good, someone obviously ran out of cereal this morning and decided to just leave that there as a fire hazard — so we can all just burn in our beds, potentially. Really, really not enjoying this at all."
Those hard moments were offset by some fantastic ones, like watching her husband fight to scrape cereal off a bowl. There's a reason why you're supposed to clean things off sooner than later, and it's not because moms love nagging.
"27 seconds of trying to scape that bowl, now multiply that by 6, and then multiply that by 7, then subtract the number of [expletives] I have left to give," mom noted.
This finally inspired her husband to load the dishwasher, which sounds great in theory. That is, of course, provided that it gets turned on and run. It was seriously torturing her to know it was so close, and yet …
It was at this point, as the tweets were blowing up, that mom started to get some hate from other moms who felt like she was being over the top. They blamed her for how her family was acting and how she was throwing a "temper tantrum" in response. Then she explained herself.
"I see that judgey [expletive] Twitter has woken up so let me say this once and be clear – We do not 'live like this'. This is a lesson in wanting to be heard and respected and not having to repeat yourself when things slip. We're navigating the day-today in extraordinary times and for me, the past two days have been funnier than anything else," she said.
"I think we're all entitled to run our own experiments, be amused, push a situation to its limit if we so choose. No one needs to be lectured by those that have failed to see the silly joy in what's happening here."
Mom had all but given up hope when suddenly things started turning around. Her family rediscovered toilet paper and how to stock bathrooms with it. As she saw things start to turn around, she continued to stand by what she was doing.
"We keep our homes tidy because love," she noted.
"We cook food and set tables and fill the air with scents of roses and fresh laundry because love. Love is patient but love is also [expletive] tired because she works 14 hour days."
After three days, it finally happened. Her house was clean. She was victorious, but clear about not wanting to do that again:
"You're gonna have good days, bad days, and a lot of [expletive] it days, but people don't like being taken for granted, especially by the ones they love the most. Period."
