A Cleaning Nightmare!
I’ll never forget the day that I cleaned my “junk drawer” for the first time. At one time, my junk drawer was actually called my “special drawer.” It was the place where I kept little toys and gifts that didn’t seem to have another place.
I kept my drawer pretty neat for about a year, but the more time passed, the more things I put in there. Whenever I was in a hurry to clean my room and I didn’t have time to think about where things should go, guess where I threw them? Layer upon layer piled up, and eventually my parents started to call it my junk drawer. “So what?” I thought to myself. As long as my room looked clean, what was the problem?
I found out exactly what the problem was one morning when I noticed a pool of liquid under my nightstand. I dove onto the floor and desperately tried to figure out the source. It wasn’t until I opened up my drawer that I found out what happened: The snow globe that my grandparents had bought me last year had cracked, and the water had leaked everywhere!!
An hour and a half later, I had finally cleaned up the entire mess. I learned an important lesson that day, one that I still remember and use today: A few extra seconds of attention here and there can save you from hours of pain later on!!