The Merits of Hardwood

For a long time I have firmly believed in having hardwood floors. My reasons include my theory that you can never really clean a carpet, once something goes into your carpet it permanently lives there. For instance your 10 month old baby is crawling around and all of the sudden throws up on your precious carpet. For the next 10 – 15 minutes, in between coddling your young love, you work fervently to remove puke from the carpet. Of course you are able to get most of it but some is ultimately left living and breathing in your carpet. Next your young love is having his afternoon bottle and gets distracted as the dog blasts, torpedo style, through the back door with mud on his feet. Young love throws the bottle aside in hot pursuit of his furry friend and soon you realize you have mud and milk living in your carpet. Now some might say “your pour youngster has to learn to walk and crawl on hard wood how cruel.” I however say to those people with hardwood you just wipe up vomit, mop up mud and milk and they are gone forever! Ahhhh, what peace to know that my young love can safely crawl on my clean floors without encountering year old dog puke and dirt. Finally, the reason I want hardwood real bad. Duke, I love him, I love him, I love him (repeat 10 more times). Duke jumped on the counter and snatched a pen today. I might not have known if it wasn’t for the giant black spot on the top of his head and paw along with the several black spots spatter across my hallways and living room. I don’t care how wonderful my new Dyson may be. I WANT HARDWOOD!