What is understood to be a Universal Truth is not always widely known. “It’s so rude to not send a thank you note.” is one I hear often and one I break.  One of my favorites was declared as gospel fact in a ladies’ group. My friend declared, as though she was an astronomer discussing the sun’s rising, “If someone calls saying they will drop by in a few minutes and there’s no time to clean house, everyone knows there is only one room you need to straighten!”
We sat in perfect silence but then a small voice finally said, “Which one?” My freind answered, “The bathroom of course! It’s the only room in which a guest might be by ALONE WITH THE DOOR CLOSED!” There was a slight shuffling and she continued, “Everyone alone in a strange bathroom inspects the insides all drawers and cupboards!”
This was met with mixed reviews: some sounds in the room were a mutter of affirmation but the rest were noises of incredulity! Many were thinking, as John did when I repeated this situation to him later, “We can do THAT? I’ve been missing out! Let’s go visit someone!”                                                                                                                            My friend had declared a universal truth again because it rang true inside me but evidently I’d missed the universe again!                                                                                                The room fell silent and I’m positive everyone was clicking through their memories trying to matching up bathroom guests with cupboard tidiness.
In my book ‘Bearos’ Kathy is “blamed for kitty one and kitty two swimming in the toilet.” She claims she didn’t do this, “The bearos were just washing the fish water off so they could eat them!” she says. She proves the logic of her argument by pointing out, “Everybody who watches television knows bears love fish.”
Read about Kathy in Bearos at Amazon and tomorrow I’ll tell you about the surprises inside some of the drawers at my house.  nancymauerman.com