Back at home where the children have spent the last three days eating flaming hot Cheetos and breakfast cereal out of the box in the living room...
But what's this I see? Has someone been vacuuming?
flimflam \flim-flam\ noun 1. Staged housecleaning created by the casual placement of props in various locations in an attempt to convince the mother of the house into believing that things are not as bad as they appear. syn see VACUUM FRAUD
From the dictionary archives: We have ways of making you talk
It is a very old trick. I got out of the house many a Saturday by strategically placing a used toothbrush covered in some Comet-like substance in the rails of the shower making it appear that I slaved all morning and that I really gave a shit about cleaning the shower. And that bag of garbage? "Yeah, mom I took it out." All the way to my closet.
Posted by: elizalawyerbitch | March 19, 2011 at 05:21 AM
Cover-up (cov•er-ups) Check underneath the vacuum for evidence of worse spills.
Posted by: Audubon Roc | March 19, 2011 at 07:09 AM
Plausible deniability
Posted by: elizalawyerbitch | March 19, 2011 at 09:54 AM
It would have to be a jury of teenagers. Otherwise any first year prosecutor could make this case.
SK
Posted by: Suburban Kamikaze | March 19, 2011 at 10:58 AM
A jury of teenagers would be a jury of your peers.
Posted by: elizalawyerbitch | March 19, 2011 at 02:04 PM
Overlords maybe. Not peers.
SK
Posted by: Suburban Kamikaze | March 19, 2011 at 03:03 PM
A jury of teenagers --"Lord of the Flies," and you don't want to be Piggy.
Posted by: elizalawyerbitch | March 21, 2011 at 04:48 AM
I pull this same trick in case anyone drops by. Like my mother. Or CPS.
Posted by: foolery | March 24, 2011 at 10:23 AM