We had a house showing today.
This means I get to make the house spotless, grab the baby AND 2 dogs and hide away somewhere for an hour. It's a little stressful. Okay, a lot stressful, and takes hours and hours of cleaning and I'm sick and tired of doing it every other day. Forgive me, but I have to vent.
Anyway, our next door neighbors went out of town for the weekend and because we're taking care of their dogs, we got their permission to hang out at their house during showings. I decided to set up our "spy shack" on their porch for the showing because it looks directly at the side of our house. Mwah ha ha [evil laugh].
I equipped our spy shack with all the necessities -- dog crate, dogs, leashes, baby, diaper bag, laptop, toys and lunch and waited. Then waited and waited and waited some more.
About 45 minutes into the operation, I decided to eat my apple. Isaac was fascinated with it and I let him try some. Here's some of the top secret footage:
To continue the story, the entire hour from 11 to noon went by without visitors. Just lots of people walking their dogs and babies in strollers and other fun stuff to bark at. I decided to wait a few more minutes. Finally, realtor, couple and a parent finally pulled up.
We sat tight and tried to act as normal and neighborly as possible. They walked in, we strained our ears to hear what they were saying through the open windows. No luck. Suddenly, realtor and mom walked out mudroom door. Rita barked a friendly bark at them. They gave us a dirty look, quickly scanned the backyard, looked at each other knowingly and the mom said, "Yeah, we're really just interested in that other one." The realtor nodded knowingly in return, gave us another funny look and re-entered the house. In less than a minute, they all walked out, got in their cars and drove away. Total time in house - 5 minutes.
All that work, for what??? Nothing even fun to spy about. Argh.
2 comments:
Aww man, that is a bummer. Exactly, all that work for nothing. It is SO hard to do all the cleaning...especially with lots of kids/dogs running around to mess things up! I hope something great happens soon for you guys...it's hard to imagine anyone not loving your house...it's beautiful!
That's rough! The least they could do is say something worth hearing!
So when do you guys move? How is the packing coming? Scott and I are moving back to Salt Lake in just over a week. Love the packing part... Not! Oh, and Steph is teething now, too, so her fussiness is complicating things. Oh, the joys of motherhood... =) I wouldn't trade it for the world!
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