I've noticed that I moan when I dry my face after washing it. In other words I groan involuntarily when I'm rubbing a towel over my face, especially my eyes! Do you towel moan?
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Do you take your shoes off as soon as you get through the door? I do if they're gardening shoes. There's a small row of them in what would be our porch in a different house. Street shoes get taken off in the hall and piled up. We used to have a shoe cupboard but it never got used! Sometimes the rebel in me lets my shoes fall off in the TV room! What do you do?
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I've noticed kids parking their bikes outside the local sweet shop. They're left flat on the ground sometimes in the way of pedestrians. Most rebellious! I'm not sure I was street-wise enough to do this. I think I parked my bike neatly against a shop wall or I may even have stood it up on the bike stand that most bikes had back in the Sixties. My chopper had one I'm certain. It made a most satisfactory sprung clicking sound. What did you do?
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A bathroom item recently found itself obsolete and upcycled in the garden as a flower pot base. I'm not even sure what its called but its function was to act as a shelf across the bath. Like a wooden Golden Gate bridge, it spanned the width of the tub offering sanctuary to such oddments as soap, loofer and nailbrush. The loofer and nailbrush went years ago so like the household phone the bath bridge has seen less and less action of late. Increasingly difficult to limbo under and irksome in the extreme when showering the slatted plank has sadly felt the spray of bubble bath for the last time. Have you a bath shelf?
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More domestic folk tales to come. What concerns you readers?
I like shoes to be left in the hall. Neat, tidy and regimented... especially if it's raining outside. But what I like and what I get are often two different things; especially when a flustered Mrs K gets home from work, or my youngest marches up and down the stairs at the double, in her Army Cadet boots. No consideration for the man behind the mop in our house, Woodsy :)
ReplyDeleteOh, and while we're on the subject, Woodsy, I'm also quietly unhappy about assorted letters, folders and envelopes constantly being sandwiched between the books on my bookcase. I don't put them there. I'd really like to man-up, put my big boy pants on, take control, perhaps say something tough and assertive... but perhaps it's best just to go with the domestic flow and suffer in silence. I'd be out numbered anyway. Tone :)
DeleteThat regiment of yours needs some discipline Tone. Sounds like a joob for Action Man. Now he knows how to line up his placcy boots!
DeleteLetters, folders and envelopes? Are you sure they aren't lending cards and you live in a library Tone! I must admit I like to put old notes inside books for later discovery! Me and the Missus constantly leave notes for each other!
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ReplyDeleteNever had a bike, but what I hate is when neighbourhood kids leave their bikes strewn haphazardly over the steps and path that lead up to my house. I'm not a gymnast, and I don't see why I should be expected to dodge, dive, duck, and dance over and around an obstacle course when I'm trying to gain ingress or egress to and from my humble domicile. And what about the parents? Parking their cars carelessly up on the pavement at odd angles so that people with prams or in mobility scooters can't get by without having to negotiate whatever space is left to them more carefully than they should need to. Some people just have no consideration for others.
ReplyDeleteWhy are bikes strewn about in front of your house Kid? Is there a youth club nearby? As for cars, they are king in the streetscape. It'll take a miracle to change that in society.
DeleteNah, just neighbours' kids nearby, who drop their bikes with no thought for anyone else having to get out or in, pensioners included.
DeleteThose pesky kids!
DeleteBiggest bug bear me and Mrs Ev have is people who take their shoes off in our home! We don't like it and in any case all feet smell. - We've actually got to the stage in our old age that we avoid going to houses where we are expected to take our shoes off.
ReplyDeleteI know there are some cultures where that is the norm, but it certainly isn't in the Welsh Mining culture which is where we're from.
yes its our pet hate.
Do ya know that used to happen a lot Bill, being asked for our shoes to be taken off but not so much in the last ten years as people have replaced carpets with flooring. I assume de-shoeing is about carpets. Nothing worse than smelly feet in the home, I agree!
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