Reverse Roles

Actually, aku ada kerja yang nak kena siap pagi ni.. buat minit mesyuarat.. tapi karang punya karang.. aku jadi blur.. so aku selit kejap baca buku memandangkan kat rumah memang payah siket nak luang masa untuk baca buku..

Taken from Chicken Soup for the Couple's Soul

pg 154

Marry was married to a male chauvinist. They both worked full time, but he never did anything around the house and certainly not any housework. That, he declared, was woman's work.

But one evening, Marry arrived home from work to find the children bathed, a load of wash in the washing machine and another in the dryer, dinner on the stove and a veautifully set table, complete with flowers.


She was astonished, and she immediately wanted to know what was going on. It turned out that Charley, her husband, had read a magazine article that suggested working wives would be more romantically inclined if they weren't so tired from having to do all the housework in addition to holding down a full time job.

The next day, she could'nt wait to tell her friends int the office. "How did it work out?" they asked.

"Well, it was a great dinner," Marry said. Charly even cleaned up, helped the kids with their homework, folded the laundry and put everything away."

"But what about afterward? her friends wanted to know.

"It didn't work out," Marry said. "Charley was too tired".

Since takde maid.. aku memang penat tahap melampau.. (walaupun masa ada Kak Milah, aku still lagi do half of the housework).. Balik kerja, solat kalau belum sempat solat kat office, letak kain dalam washing machine, keluarkan apa yang nak dimasak, angkat kain yang dah dijemur pagi tadi, mandikan anak, prepare dinner.. fuhhh.. Itu belum lagi sapu/vacuum, mop lantai dan cuci toilet yang aku akan buat bila dah kotor sangat. Amat akan tolong tapi bila tolong satu, yang itu jer lah.. Aku rasa aku lagi ligat kalah tuhan keling yang banyak tangan tuh.. penat memang penat.. Amat still lagi boleh tolong aku mandikan anak.. tapi ayat dia kan.. Jangan buat sepah.. nanti ibu marah ayah.. (Siot jer.. nampak sangat aku ibu yang garang).. Aku rasa kaum lelaki tak sehebat wanita dalam doing the housework. Tak caya tanya ibu-ibu yang lain... Aku bernasib baik lagi.. Amat still consider ringan tangan tolong aku.. ada suami tu.. makan pun tinggal pinggan atas meja. Basuh berak anak? Sorry..

Tapi semalam Amat tolong jemur baju, basuh pinggan dan mandikan anak.. Aku dah dengar ada high tones masa dia pakaikan baju anak.. Tau jer lah budak2 kan.. nak main jer lebih.. Aku dah macam kesian tengok dia buat kejar-kejar budak.. sampai dia membebel kat Neesa.. ayah penat tau.. ayah penat tau.. pas tu Neesa jawab.. Ibu tak penat pun!! (Bertuah punya anak!) Baru nak relax.. Bagi aku.. suami isteri yang dua-dua kerja.. dua2 penat.. so, bantu-bantu lah isteri.. Sebenarnya kalau ikut Nabi.. kerja rumah tu kerja suami.. Isteri layan suami jer kan!!