Madge on Life

Do you remember this add?  Isn't it awful? I just sit here thinking how as a small child I sat and watched this add (on TV) tell me that not only should I be the one washing the dishes but, that I had better not look jacked up when i am done.  My hands better not look like an ape's after doing all of the dishes and I had better work on my hair and appearance.

This particular add must have shaped my world view a lot because I remember distinctly telling my mother that when I grew up I was gonna have a dishwasher so that I would never wash dishes.  (I didn't cook, clean or wash dishes very well at all.)  And anyone can tell you that I did NOT primp back in the day. And ask anyone who knows the young me, I was dead set against the domestic side of life :oD 

This was more my type of add:

 

You know the type that says--Anything you can do, I can do better.  And I am fine without you.  If you mess with me, I will bust you in the jaw!  Hahahaha! But it is so true! (I might cry afterwards, but hey I am still a woman.)

I guess Madge new better than I did.  Because here I am washing the dishes (I have a dishwasher too), primping my hair and trying not to look jacked up all of the time.  After all this time, and after everything that I know, and after all the schooling and education--I am still just an ape washing dishes.