My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
ERMA BOMBECKMy kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden.
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One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.
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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
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Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, its unplanned, it’s full of suprises.
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