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Who Puts Elastic Bands Around Their Butter?
We do. We live with clever cats
Butter dishes in this household do not remain with us for any duration. The sturdier ones survive longer, the cheap plastic or expensive ceramic dishes usually wind up on the floor in pieces. Some of the plastic ones were resurrected with globs of glue until their final shattering trip to the ceramic-tiled kitchen floor.
The cats relentlessly desire to hunker down with the opened butter dish and run their rough tongues lovingly over the soft stick of yellow deliciousness. And there it is, so accessible sitting there on the kitchen counter.
I know. Why do we keep our butter dish on the counter when we know the cats are on the prowl for its contents? My husband, that’s why. He is not always reasonable, or logical. His mom always kept her butter on the kitchen counter. Whatever his mom did is precisely what my husband does and the subject is not open for discussion. Unreasonable? Definitely.
I could fill a page with my husband’s, to me, unreasonable behavior because that is the way his mom did it. This issue has a solution, reasonable or not; others I endure or accept.
She had no cats. We have seven of the sneaky, butter-loving creatures.
My husband’s solution: rubber bands around the butter dish. Of course, the cats continue to knock the dish on the floor; they have not yet figured out how to remove the elastics. It is only a matter of time. They are determined and clever.
