A few days after my things ended up in his closet, I began to feel like a real Stepford wife from the novel about how all women were turned into robots doing housework around the clock. They simply had no time for anything else – all their time was consumed by cleaning and cooking.
Every time my future husband came home from outside, the cleanly washed floor turned into a likeness of a seashore – with sand, clay, and a bunch of debris that he spread with his dirty soles from the bathroom to the kitchen. Since I have other interests besides dancing with a mop, the silence in the house was replaced by a war theater.
I spent a long time convincing my beloved to remember the ingenious invention of the Ancient East, which has been extremely popular among my former compatriots for many years. During the lengthy negotiations, I described all the advantages of slippers, showed websites on the Internet, and even bought several different options for him to choose from.
I became an expert in comfortable home footwear. For example, have you ever heard of slippers with heating and a 'defrost' function? There are also designer slippers, as well as orthopedic ones with arch supports and heels of ideal height for treating flat feet, slippers made of swan down... a million different options.
During the search, my personal wardrobe was enriched with slippers with lights for nighttime trips to the bathroom, as well as designer slippers with green grass inside. Honestly, I decided to use them outside the home. Now, when I put my son on the school bus in the morning, all the neighbors will burst with envy. As for my fiancé...
You won't believe it, I convinced him. He looked at and tried on all sorts of options for a long time, wrinkled his nose at the designer slippers, clicked his tongue at the heated slippers, grunted as he got into the slippers with arch supports, and in the end chose... terry cloth disposable slippers. You know, the thin and soft kind that are handed out on trains and in hotels.
Now he is going to buy these slippers wholesale, so that they last a lifetime, like a week's supply. Well, at least I got my way.