Have a laugh on me...
OK, all you random laughers, here's fodder for your laughter mills...
You all know I've been bemoaning my weariness for the last month or so and in the last couple of weeks it's gotten markedly worse. I've been working all the hours God sends....and he's been sending quite a lot...which is good, but tiring!
So this afternoon I decide I HAVE to wash some laundry, and also...I had a suprise student turn up for a last-minute cram session. She has her test tomorrow, and she's panicking, and she's a good friend, so I said, "OK come over," knowing I would have to just sit and hold her hand for an hour.
Which I did.
When she left I quickly stripped the bed and crammed a load of sheets in the washer along with a few other bits and pieces, and cleaned the kitchen, comforting myself with the thought of a day OFF tomorrow while everyone does their exams.
About half an hour later I glance at the washer, which is a front-loader...and what do I see through the porthole but an ISBN number!!
I had washed my copy of The Colour Purple!!
It was going round and round among the sheets, saying, "Help me, help me!"
So...I turn off the washer, wait the regulation 3 min for the saftey catch to open (cursing all the while) and finally fish it out.
Not so much a novel any more, more a sponge.
I'll have to go down to the English bookshop and see how much they're going to "soak" me for a new copy, if indeed I can still get it.
But....I won't be able to read it lying in bed tomorrow, will I.
Note to self: Check DH's pockets for change, and the bedsheets for novels!
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OK, all you random laughers, here's fodder for your laughter mills...
You all know I've been bemoaning my weariness for the last month or so and in the last couple of weeks it's gotten markedly worse. I've been working all the hours God sends....and he's been sending quite a lot...which is good, but tiring!
So this afternoon I decide I HAVE to wash some laundry, and also...I had a suprise student turn up for a last-minute cram session. She has her test tomorrow, and she's panicking, and she's a good friend, so I said, "OK come over," knowing I would have to just sit and hold her hand for an hour.
Which I did.
When she left I quickly stripped the bed and crammed a load of sheets in the washer along with a few other bits and pieces, and cleaned the kitchen, comforting myself with the thought of a day OFF tomorrow while everyone does their exams.
About half an hour later I glance at the washer, which is a front-loader...and what do I see through the porthole but an ISBN number!!
I had washed my copy of The Colour Purple!!
It was going round and round among the sheets, saying, "Help me, help me!"
So...I turn off the washer, wait the regulation 3 min for the saftey catch to open (cursing all the while) and finally fish it out.
Not so much a novel any more, more a sponge.
I'll have to go down to the English bookshop and see how much they're going to "soak" me for a new copy, if indeed I can still get it.
But....I won't be able to read it lying in bed tomorrow, will I.
Note to self: Check DH's pockets for change, and the bedsheets for novels!
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Awwww, Yabbit. That didn't make me laugh. Maybe it will after a while when I've gotten over the loss of your book. The way you lost it IS a bit amusing, however. Better your book than a cat, I suppose.
oh dear, it didn't make me laugh either. i am sorry.
also, bookmama, the first thing i thought of when she said 'quickly stripped the sheets off" is 'oh no, she going to wash something awful' the first thing that came to my mind? the cat.
Oh dear! Nothing worse then a washed up book? Dont suppose you could throw it in the dryer w/o heat and try to salvage it?
It did make me laugh. I have done thing like this so many times. It's not so funny at the moment it happens. But when you look back all you can do is laugh.
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Well yabbitgirl some people keep them by their bedside in bookcases. ;) ;) ;) :D :D :D ;D
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at least The Color Purple didnt run and stain all your laundry.
heehee. im corny. ;D
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at least The Color Purple didnt run and stain all your laundry.
heehee. im corny. ;D
The joys of a bilingual marriage. That is EXACTLY what DH thought when I tried to tell him WHY I was lying on my back in the utility space, alternately giggling and cursing my idiocy!! He said, and goodness knows I quote: "Well, you could bleach the sheets I guess..."
Same guy who thought that "cervical cancer" was a disease that attacked the neck vertebrae...but he couldn't understand why only women get it... :D
hahaha!!! OK, that is too funny! One of those 'D'oh!' moments! ;D
The joys of a bilingual marriage. That is EXACTLY what DH thought when I tried to tell him WHY I was lying on my back in the utility space, alternately giggling and cursing my idiocy!! He said, and goodness knows I quote: "Well, you could bleach the sheets I guess..."
Same guy who thought that "cervical cancer" was a disease that attacked the neck vertebrae...but he couldn't understand why only women get it... :D
Heeheehee. I'm sorry about your book, but that and your DH's thoughts gave me a smile. Good luck! ;D
Harr!!!
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I have a small canvas bag that I take almost everywhere. It's full of music CDs, current reading, fave books, stuff like that. I toss it, along with my canvas lunch bag, into the bed of my Toyota truck & tuck the bags into the corner with the spare tire.
One day I filled up with gas, bought a car wash & didn't think of my bag of books until the moment the water turned on. My VWAV & a few other fave books now have rumpled edges from standing in water about 2 inches deep but are still readable & have that charm that well read books develop.
Keep your 'purple' sponge as a memory.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who's done this - thanks yabbit ;D
I actually dried my book out in the oven - I'm not sure it was the best way to do it, but it was salvaged :D
Wow! I have washed numerous things, but never a book. Be glad it wasn't chewing gum! or a marker ::)
Okay, I can relate, I have washed my jump drive twice, and my cell phone once, and by some miracle they still worked, even after the jump drive went through the dryer as well. But I did finally bust that cell phone by dropping it down a flight of stairs onto concrete. But that was okay becuase it was a flip phone and the hinge was already cracked from god knows what...I got a new phone for free, and this time NO FLIP PHONE! I have dropped it two times on concrete and it still works, but I it hasn't been through the wash yet! ;D I am a bit absentminded can you tell? But I haven't dropped my laptop computer yet and I have had it more that a year (knock on wood)! Probably because that was $1300, I tend to be very careful with things that cost a LOT of money. Then again...I have crashed twice on my $700 Trek bike...