Too much, Oil of Olay

Last week I wrote about the parable of the ten Virgins, in Matthew 25:1-13. Five were wise and five were foolish.

This week something happened that could be a retelling of the lesson. 🙂

My wife has a bottle of Oil of Olay moisturising cream.
For some reason, she doesn’t bother to put the lid back onto the bottle. It appears that she just couldn’t be bothered to do so. (She is the one who suggested that this might be a post to write.)

One morning she was trying to use the Oil of Olay, and started to complain, “I can’t get any out.” So I just took the bottle, and had a go at squeezing some out, with a vice like grip.
Little did I know, that the small hole for the moisturiser to come out of, was blocked. It was soo blocked, that nothing was going to come out, that way.
Instead, under the pressure of a husbands vice grip, the whole end stopper shot out like a cork released from a bottle, along with a handful (and a bit more) of moisturiser with a sudden splurge.
It was a bit of a shock. 🙂
It seemed that my wife’s top, the floor, and a few other places needed a bit of moisturiser too. 🙂
We both ended up laughing about it, but a bit of a clean up, was needed to be done.

When I looked at the Oil of Olay cap, I noticed that it has a small pin like bit on the inside of the cap.
It seems that the maker knows that the hole could get clogged, and as such, has made a way to clear the hole the moisturiser goes through, if the cap is used as it should be.
Namely, all the time.

My wife (and myself) got caught out, in effect, because the effort of putting the top on and off all the time was too much for her.
She was acting like one of the foolish virgins who didn’t take any extra oil with them.
She has since told me that she will change her ways, and now make use of the lid, in turn, using the all important cleaning pin.

She has in effect, decided to stop acting like one of the foolish virgins, and to instead, act like one of the wise virgins.