threshold for disaster
from the NYTimes: You want it clean?.
Mr. Chethik thinks men are simply wired not to notice an audience, seen or unseen. "Of the men I interviewed, it wasn't so much that they didn't want to do the housework as that they didn't notice that the house was dirty," he said. "They didn't see it or smell it. It just doesn't register the same way."
Ha, there is something about that! M. and I are both creators of squalor. But my threshold level for mess is slightly less than M.'s I start noticing (and becoming disgusted) slightly before he does...which means I end up doing most of the cleaning. Weird, isn't it?
Mr. Chethik thinks men are simply wired not to notice an audience, seen or unseen. "Of the men I interviewed, it wasn't so much that they didn't want to do the housework as that they didn't notice that the house was dirty," he said. "They didn't see it or smell it. It just doesn't register the same way."
Ha, there is something about that! M. and I are both creators of squalor. But my threshold level for mess is slightly less than M.'s I start noticing (and becoming disgusted) slightly before he does...which means I end up doing most of the cleaning. Weird, isn't it?