Ten-Finger Exercises

Soap's on

If I were a person who offends easily, and some people do, I could wonder why Bill's kids gave me so many kinds of good smelling soaps for Christmas. My guess is that it's hard to think of things for people you don't know very well, and both girls love things like that themselves. However, here's a question: how can one person possibly use four bars of great smelling soap before next Christmas?

It would probably help if I didn't use the nice little bars from the fancy hotels, and if I threw away any bar that began to get those nasty cracks in it, long before it became a skinny little shadow of itself.

One of the new bars is actually too pretty to use. It looks like a lotus blossom, and came in an elegant box. I know you can't just keep soap forever-- it loses its smell. How long does it take to use a bar of soap around your house?