Stop, drop and run

A friend of mine recently described his house as "nuclear bomb messy". I assumed he meant that the house often looks like it has been rocked by a bomb, which is the way I regularly describe our home. But no, he explained, he meant that it always looks likes his wife and kids found out a bomb was about to go off, dropped everything where it was, and fled the scene. This cracked me up because this is exactly the way our house looks all the time. I couldn't help but think of his comment as I was about to clear the table for dinner tonight, though apparently three bombs went off outside our house today: We've got cereal from this morning, eggs from lunch and bagels from the afternoon snack...