The Remarkable Fools Letter

The Remarkable Fools Letter

Tap dancing on Uranus

and other household chores

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Jim Dalling
Nov 09, 2025
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Tody was a special day dear reader,

Today was special as it followed yesterday.

And yesterday?

Yesterday, was a special day.

For yesterday, “it” arrived.

The it?

A dryer vent cleaning kit - fully equipted - this thing has every thing - whirley bits, brushy bits, sticky bits,

And bits designed for maximum suck

What a glorious bit of kit!

After some preliminary excavations uncovered ancient socks and dish rags so deeply dirty they could never recover.., I foraged onward, behind the appliances.

These appliances are also special dear reader. For some reason their initial installation involved some how stuffing a skinny meth head over the top of the stacked appliances while he plugged stuff in.

I remember holding his ankles so he wouldn’t fall in to be trapped behind our stacked set. He’d be there forever and never escape. Well maybe he might. He might get hungry for meth.

His legs were hairy and his feet stank.

Also?

He groaned his teeth a lot. There were time Whe I couldn’t tell if it were his tile s…

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