Originally posted by Lillycat
yep, i was right.....this is a hoot!...i think generational differences are soooooo interesting......
Oh I know you think its a hoot reading these, but do we get to know how your household differed from your parents too? He he he!


PCB my mom is the exact same way with ironing. Sometimes she even hires a housekeeper just to do the ironing! I don't understand it at all.


OMG, Laura, my mom did that once too!!! She only had the housekeeper come for a few days though......then decided she didn't need her when none of us wanted a housekeeper ironing our clothes.

All this ironing stuff reminded me of a funny story. My mom told me when she graduated from high school, her school was holding a party for all the girls graduating. My mom LOVES sewing, and made herself a beautiful dress for the party. She said she spent days making that dress, and it was just gorgeous.

Anyway, when she finished sewing the dress, she turned on the iron with the intention of ironing it in a few minutes, and left the room to use the bathroom. When she came back a few minutes later, her dress had a HUGE hole in it......in the shape of the iron. Of course my mom was upset and cried because her hard work was RUINED!

She said she walked around the house crying, and asking everyone if they knew who did it. My mom has 6 siblings.....they are 7 in total. It had to be one of them. She asked everyone, and everyone said they had no clue what happened. Then my mom noticed her youngest sister, who was 9 at the time, was missing from the house. They looked EVERYWHERE for her, and she was no where in sight. It was quite obvious that she did it and ran and hid somewhere to avoid getting in trouble.

Eventually, my mom's grandma knocked on the door and she had my aunt with her. My aunt (mom's little sister) had burnt her clothes with the iron and ran away to her grandma's house. Boy did she get in BIG trouble when she got home.

Ever since my mom told me that story, I consider irons evil. My mom thinks her little sister was evil, but I disagree. She's my favorite aunt. She can't be evil. The iron was evil, and irons will always be evil. He he he!

As to the dress, my mom had to buy more cloth and sew the front part all over again....all thanks to the iron.