My mom says I should clean up...

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**KingCracker**

Its AMAZING how fast you can lose a bit when it falls on the floor. Youd think a grey plastic piece landing on a much darker carpet would be easy to find, but NOOOOOOOoooooo never gunna happen

**BOSS_PIMPALOTZ**

indeed

**illuknisaa**

Yeah it's amazing how hard it's to find something you have dropped on the floor. I found out that stuff you drop seems to always drop in the same direction as last time, so if you roll scatter it might point out the where bits are laying.

**pcon426**

just look at my avatar it is my desk the day after i got it now it is just a pile of bits

**Stump**

Gavin Thorne wrote:She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed manifests in many forms...

The Girlfriend who may deny favors if her requests are rebuffed...

The Wife who may require couch-sleep as penance for disobeying...

The Mother who may clean your room for you, consuming any and all plastic bits in the Vacuum of Doom and the Trash Bin of Humility (as in digging in it In Humility to get your bits out of the coffee grinds).

Remember, these are harsh mistresses and are not mastered easily or for long. Homage to them requires citing the Boyfriend/Husband/Son-Grunt Litany of Remittance: "Yes Love/Wife/Mom, I will clean this mess right away. You are beautiful and kind, I bask in your mercy."

TOO FUNNY!!

When my youngster has a hard time cleaning his room I just ask him if he wants to do or shall I. One time he said I could do it so I took everything and started putting it in trash bags. It did not take him long to grab the bags and say he would clean it himself. Am I a mean Dad or what?

**GoFenris**

I have also used this tactic (as my own mother once used on me) very effective.

**Gavin Thorne**

I'll add my own participation in that child management exercise as well...

As my son has gotten older, we routinely ask him to put toys he no longer plays with in a bin for donation to the local charities. Once he learned that there were children that didn't have toys, he became very dedicated to making sure that others had the opportunity for fun with the toys he'd gotten play out of.

Now I just hope he doesn't apply the same principle to the big-boy toys he's growing into ie. Ipod, cell phone, girls...

**Captain Shrike**

That desk is no where near as bad as mine was, all I will say though is spilled bits, 3 destroyed Rhinos, half an army, and spilled metal/wood glue