Neat People vs. Sloppy People
Suzanne Britt
I’ve finally figured out the difference between neat people and sloppy people. The distinction is, as always, moral. Neat people are lazier and meaner than sloppy people.
Sloppy people, you e, are not really sloppy. Their sloppiness is merely the unfortunate conquence of their extreme moral rectitude. Sloppy people carry in their mind’s eye a heavenly vision, a preci plan, which is so stupendous, so perfect, it can’t be achieved in this world or the next.
Sloppy people live in Never-Never Land. Someday is their métier. Someday they are planning to alphabetize all their books and t up home catalogs. Someday they will go through their wardrobes and mark certain items for tentative mending and certain items for passing on to relatives of similar shape and size. Someday sloppy people will make family scrapbooks into which they will put newspaper clippings, postcards, locks of hair, and the dr
ied corsage from their nior prom. Someday they will file everything on the surface of their desks, including the cash receipts from coffee purchas at the snack shop. Someday they will sit down and read all the back issues of 余秋雨的散文The New Yorker.
For all the noble reasons and more, sloppy people never get neat. They aim too high and wide. They save everything, planning someday to file order and straighten out the world. But while the ambitious plans take clearer and clearer shape in their heads, the books spill from the shelves onto the floor, the clothes pile up in蚂拼音 the hamper and clotui工程师, the family mementos accumulate in every drawer, the surface of the desk is buried under mounds of paper and the unread magazines threaten to reach the ceiling.
Sloppy people can’t bear to part with anything. They give loving attention to every detail. When sloppy people say they’re going to tackle the surface of a desk, they really mean it. Not a paper will go unturned; not a rubber band橡皮筋 will go unboxed. Four hours or two weeks into the excavation, the desk looks exactly the same, primarily becau the sloppy person is meticulously creating new piles of papers with new headings and scrupulously
stopping to read all the old book catalogs before he throws them away. A neat person would just bulldoze the desk.
山坡羊潼关怀古张养浩Neat people are bums and clods at heart. They have cavalier attitudes toward posssions, including family 形容思考的成语heirlooms. Everything is just another dust-catcher to them. If anything collects dust, it’s got to go and that’s that. Neat people will toy with the idea of throwing the children out of the hou just to cut down the clutter.
Neat people don’t care about process. They like results. What they want to do is get the whole thing over with so they can sit down and watch the rasslin’ on TV. Neat people operate on two unvarying principles: Never handle any item twice, and throw everything away.
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The only thing messy in a neat person’s hou is the trash can. The minute something comes to a neat person’s hand, he will look at it, try to decide if it has immediate u and, finding none, throw it in the trash.
小学二年级上册数学期末考试卷Neat people are especially vicious with mail. They never go through their mail unless they are standing directly over a trash can. If the trash can is beside the mailbox, even better. All ads, catalogs, pleas for charitable contributions, church bulletins and money-saving coupons go straight into the trash can without being opened. All letters from home, postcards from Europe, bills and paychecks are opened, immediately responded to, then dropped in the trash can. Neat people keep their receipts only for tax purpos. That’s it. No ntimental salvaging of birthday cards or the last letter of a dying relative ever wrote. Into the trash it goes.
Neat people place neatness above everything, even economics. They are incredibly wasteful. Neat people throw away veral toys every time they walk through the den. I knew a neat person once who threw away a perfectly good dish drainer becau it had mold on it. The drainer was too much trouble to wash. And neat people ll their furniture when they move. They will ll a La-Z-Boy recliner while you are reclining in it.
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Neat people are no good to borrow from. Neat people buy everything in expensive little si
ngle portions. They get their flour and sugar in two-pound bags. They wouldn’t consider clipping a coupon, saving leftover, reusing plastic non-dairy不含牛奶的；没有乳制品whipped cream n. 生奶油 containers or rinsing off tin foil and draping it over the unmold dish drainer. You can never borrow a neat person’s newspaper to e what’s playing at the movies. Neat people have the paper all wadded up and in the trash by 7:
Neat people cut a clean swath through the organic as well as the inorganic world. People, animals, and things are all one to them. They are so innsitive. After they’ve finished with the pantry, the medicine cabinet, and the attic, they will throw out the red geranium英 [dʒɪ'reɪnɪəm] n. 天竺葵 (too many leaves), ll the dog (too many fleas), and nd the children off to boarding school (too many scuffmarks on the hardwood floors).
