My mother always insisted on stainmaster carpets . So, anytime it was time for an update on the house you better believe that dad knew she was going to ask for stainmaster carpets . I remember one year he was adding an extra room to the house for my new baby brother and thought he could save some money buy purchasing some regular carpet. He told me not to tell my mother because she was not going to be able to know the difference from a stainmaster carpet. I agreed, but in the back of my mind I was predicting the impending doom. I was just a young teenager but I knew enough to know that my mother was going to know the difference.
Summer was nearing it’s end and so was dad’s job remodeling the house. I was actually glad, about both really. I wanted to go back to school and I was tired of dad not being able to throw ball with me. So just before school started back my baby brother was born. Dad had finished his remodeling just in time. I was so excited about everything and then I remembered that dad hadn’t got stainmaster carpets . Uh oh, little babies are know for making messes. I chuckled to myself, thinking it wouldn’t be long before mom discovered that dad hadn’t used stainmaster carpets .
Benjamin, my brother, was about 6 months old and then it happened. He had found my grape juice and went to town and after that he took off his diaper and went to town. It was horrible. I got off the bus and went in to discover my mom scrubbing the carpet and spraying urine neutralizer. She hated for things not be clean. That’s when she said, “You know, I don’t think that these are stainmaster carpets . Do you think your dad may have lied to me?”. Well I knew it was bound to happen sooner or later so I told her the whole story. You should have seen the look on her face. Shew, she was steaming mad. Dad was in for it. We all learned a lesson that day, dad learned not to lie to mom, and I learned what kind of carpet was going in my house when I grew up and had children of my own.
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