I always know when April makes its yearly debut without consulting the calendar because my wife usually says, Lets clean out the garage today. Trust me on this one, it is no April fools joke, but someone gets fooled. And believe me, Im just not anybodys fool. Im my wifes fool.
Somehow, her lets has a funny singular ring to it and we had, if I remember correctly, a double ring wedding ceremony. Hers is on her left ring finger while mine somehow ended up in my nose.
For some reason spring brings to women, wives in particular, an uncontrollable urge to clean something. It doesnt matter what that something is, it has to be cleaned. Moreover, it does not matter how clean or dirty that something is or when it was last cleaned, it must be cleaned again.
This represents a basic philosophical difference between men and women. In the beginning, man was perfectly at home with dirt, then along came Eve and introduced spring-cleaning.
We have no idea how long it was between Adam and the time Eve came onto the scene, but it was long enough to get the entire Garden of Eden dirty, necessitating a thorough cleaning.
Thus began the yearly ritual known as...