What is the trouble with slovenliness?

[desperance]

The trouble with being a sloven is that you never get the credit you deserve for cleaning up. No one coming tonight would ever imagine that corner of the kitchen table could have been so grubby, so none of them will see the effort I just put in to make it otherwise.

In this as in everything, I am doomed to be underappreciated. *sigh*

[EtA: why yes, I did just clean one corner of the kitchen table. The rest of the table has stuff on it. What's your point?]