Breaks-Uncle Percy

I don’t ever think we should let aunt take a break from work ever again. She decided that she did way too much work in the house and needed some time to herself. So she was gonna spend the whole day in her room doing things she’d been wanting to do for a long time now. Of course, the day was especially hard on us. And uncle is totally not good at running the house. Not that any of us are but it's much easier to blame uncle for all the stuff that goes wrong here.

“Aunt! Can you give me a glass of water?” “Aunt, when's lunch gonna be ready? I've gotta go out in an hour!” “Maureen is my shirt ironed? I'm running late again.” Aunt Maureen was running around the house trying to get all the work done. “Okay Percy, the shirt you need is on the ironing board all set to go, Tamara, your lunch is ready and in the fridge and Pepper you can get up and get the water yourself.” She sat down for a minute, and of course, Millie chose that moment to wake up and start crying. Aunt went running upstairs. The next second, we hear a loud crash from Uncle’s room. “Everything’s fine! The ironing board just fell out the window.” With Millie in one hand, Aunt again came running down and went to check on the garden. “Aunt I can’t find my lunch anywhere,” Tamara shouted from the kitchen. “Okay, that’s it! I am done living like your maid. From this moment on, till Friday you guys are gonna learn to live independently. I’m not gonna cook, clean, wake you guys up, iron your clothes or do anything! You even have to look after the triplets. And Percy, you aren’t going to work for the next two days. You’ve gotta stay at home and help the girls run the house.”

The next morning, we woke up, expecting that aunt was kidding and that we would have breakfast ready on the table and the house to be totally clean. But to our surprise, it was the same way it was when we went to bed last night. There was a note from aunt on the table. “Went out to spa getaway, will be back by tomorrow morning. I want my house in one piece when I come back. Good luck!” Okay, so she was serious about this. What are we gonna do?

We woke uncle up and decided to first take showers and have breakfast before deciding what to do. “Okay, so Tamara is on breakfast-making duty. Oh, don’t show me that pouty face or else aunt gets to know that you were as lazy as ever. Plus, I know where you hid your flat iron.” Yep, this house is chaos. Once breakfast was done, and we had ensured the kitchen was not on fire, the next step was cleaning. “Okay so uncle’s on triplet duty, Tamara you’re in charge of the rooms, which includes dusting. Pepper you get the rest of the dusting and I’ve got the vacuuming. Uncle? UNCLE WAKE UP!” uncle had fallen asleep listening to his tasks. Oh well, the poor triplets.

We started with our chores. Tamara began by trying to change the bedsheets. She got the old ones off alright, but putting the new ones on was next to impossible. Eventually, she gave up and tried to dust the beds and tables. But she doesn’t really know how to do it. She took a dry cloth and rubbed it all over the table. All the bottles and bowls and plates fell on the floor, and the sticky spills spread all over the table. And voila, our rooms were now ‘clean’.

Next up, Pepper and the feather duster! She grabbed it and began to clean the fireplace. No, not the top of the fireplace. The place where the fire was burning. RIP feather duster. After that, she grabbed a regular wet cloth and began cleaning. All the furniture was soaking wet. It would probably be covered in dust by tomorrow.

And now we move on to today’s highlight- Uncle Percy! The triplets had woken up and all of them needed their diapers changed. Uncle attempted to do that. I’m not exactly gonna go any further with how that ended. Then came showers. He put them in their tub and that was it. After they had successfully ruined our bathroom. They had breakfast and went back to sleep. Uncle fell asleep before them.

And finally, The vacuuming show. With all this mess on the floor, I couldn’t find any way to vacuum. So I left it hanging. Damn aunt is not gonna be pleased when she comes back home and sees our house. Wish us luck!