You
know the saying...on the ad on television...
What
is in your wallet? Well, a better
question
would
be... what is in your drawers...
We
all have extra stuff in our dresser... don't know about
men...but
women it is usually the underwear drawer..
Guess
it is the drawer that she figures no man
or child
would
venture into... to see what is in there..
But
also, one should be careful what one has hid
in
their bathroom closets and drawers.. way in the
back.
As
we have been going thru our love ones things,
trying
to decide what to do with each thing.. it made
me
go back in my memory of 15 years ago. I
was asked
to
help clean out an elderly lady's apt.
We
got rid of the clothes to Goodwill, we did the same
for
the kitchen stuff... pots and pans, silverware and etc.
By
the time we got to the bathroom we were running
out
of steam. And we each had to go home to
our
families... So I got a big tote.. and told them.. you
guys
take the closet, I will take the drawers.. and
proceeded
to dump out the drawers in this tote I
brought
with me. They filled up their boxes
and
we
all left for our homes.
The
next day, after my husband went to work, I
got
the tote out. Got the garbage can on
the other
side..
and started going thru it. Shampoo's
like 8
of
them in varies amounts of fill in them. Conditioners.
Disposable
razors, jars and bottles of creams... curlers
of
old. You know the metal ones with the
red roller
on
the end of the snap. Keys to who knows what.. screw
driver...bobby
pins, cotton swaps and etc.
And
THEN.. IT APPEARED... my jaw dropped and
I
started to laugh... not just giggle, but real belly laugh.
Good
thing no one was home. You see when I
got to the
bottom,
I turn the tote upside down, so I didn't have to
dangle
over the side... and IT rolled across the floor.
I
had seen them in magazines over the years... You know
the
ads that say, you can use it on your neck to vibrate
the
aches out..... But if you read some of the other catalogs,
you
know what it is... It was about a foot long, off white
in
color, and about inch and half around... with a batteries
door
on the end... I am still almost
doubling over .. laughing.
Well,
my dear miss.. xxxx (her name) I am so
surprised...
Where
she got this item... I don't know...
But how the hell
do
I get rid of it?
So
I kicked it on to a newspaper (after all you don't know
where
this has been, but then again.. you might know) I
wrapped
the newspaper around it.. then I took another
newspaper
and wadded it up into a ball.. and put it on
the
end... and taped the whole affair. Now
looking
like
a bomb... so wadded up some more paper and
balled
it around it...and taped it.. and then I bagged it
and
taped that... As I had visions of
throwing it in
the
garbage can and then the garbage man throwing
the
garbage with vigor into the truck.. and seeing it
unwrap,
slow motionally... and mortifying me... down
the
pile towards the garbage man...and him looking at me
as
I come out to get my cans...
Thankfully
this time there were not any embarrassing.
But
got to admit, the girls and I had a new admiration for
the
old gal of 15 years ago, as we giggled over coffee
about
my find... ... Way to go grandma....
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