she couldnt do much about that , though her propensity to leave empty beer cans on the tableusually without a coaster so that their tables were all bedecked with ghostly ringsand her tendency to throw dirty clothes in the direction of the laundry hamper with much less accuracy than throwing a runner out at first base on a bunt or a dribbler to the mound were habits that she had much less success rationalizing so that when they argued about these matters she would often simply cheerfully admit that she was a slob .