Dirty

Jeff encouraged me to violate some scriptural advice on his birthday:

"Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh." 2 Corinthians 7:1
"Be ye clean." Isaiah 52:11

Every night I beg him to take a bath or a quick shower. For goodness sake, I'll accept a 2-minute washing! But for some reason he has an aversion to cleanliness and complains on the way to the tub...So on his birthday I told him he doesn't have to bathe if he doesn't want to. (For the record, this makes it two days in a row, which about makes me sick). And Jeff requested that in addition, he'd like me to go to bed dirty as well.
I couldn't believe it. It's really one of my pet peeves that my bed be absolutely clean. And I never go to bed without showering...it makes my skin crawl!

Nonetheless, it was Jeff's day and while he fell asleep with a sloppy smile on his face, muttering, "This is like a holiday..." I tossed and turned and felt the bed bugs bite. It took hours for me to knock out. My greasy hair and unshaven legs were begging me to crawl to the bathroom for a cleansing...but Jeff wouldn't let me go. I hope he enjoyed it because he'll bathe double-time on my birthday!