Mother was stuck taking us everywhere she went, even to buy a new washing machine just days before her fourth baby was born. She never asked anyone to keep us since that would have insured she had to return the favor and keep someone else’s monsters in return, probably some of our killer cousins. She was always on guard against that. We followed her into to appliance store. It was maddeningly dull to me and my Brother Billy. We wanted to ride in the dryers and jump on the doors, but she put a stop to that pretty quickly, making us sit on our hands with our backs to each other where Phyllis could watch us. Eventually, she made her choice and went to sign the mortgage papers. I knew all about mortgages! I was an avid fan of Mighty Mouse! He’d saved Sweet Alice countless times when Oilcan Harry was about to do her in all on account of that danged mortgage, and here my own sweet mother was about to sign a mortgage. I set up a protest, as only a righteous eight year old can do!
“Mother, Mother, don’t sign it. We’ll lose the house! Please don’t sign a mortgage!”
She was infuriated, as only an overwrought pregnant woman can be, snarlingly at me hatefully through clenched teeth. “Go over there and sit down. If you say another word, I’ol tear you up right here in this store!”
I do believe she meant it. She got her washer and Oilcan Harry didn’t get the house.
Another great story, you have a way with words!
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Living on love, buying on time. Without having somebody, life just ain’t worth a dime. Like an old fashioned nursery rhyme, living on love.
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My mother never said a word about love that day!
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If you ask me, your 8-y-o brain did some good thinking. 😀 😀
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My thinking hasn’t changed a bit!
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Ha ha. I hadn’t considered that. Good for you! 🙂
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Thanks. We had and still do have a great time!
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Oilcan Harry didn’t stand a chance.
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He didn’t get us under that saw!
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Mom, the super-hero.
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It’s her 88th birthday today!
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Wish her a Happy Birthday for me!
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I will
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Hahahaha! Mortgage papers for a washing machine. LOL! Isn’t it funny how children can get strange ideas in their heads from watching cartoons! hahaha! (I’m glad ya’ll didn’t end up losing your house over a new washing machine!)
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Well, it wasn’t because she didn’t sign the mortgage.
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hahaha!
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Lol !
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Learning about mortgages at eight years old! That just proves what I’ve always said: animated cartoons are highly educational. That’s why I spent so much of my childhood in deep study of them.
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You don’t still watch? I do!
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Only when my kids can’t see. Got to keep up appearances. 🙂
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Oh it’s good for the kids to think you are whacked out. Makes it easier to catch them at stuff. Their expectations are low. I still use that on my kids.
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Yep, false sense of security and all that… 🙂
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Ha ha 😄You were quite an informed miss who meant well. I like her innovative idea of making you sit down on your hands. Very resourceful lady.
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Oh, she had some practice.
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I can imagine 🙂
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Wow. Another embarrassment for your poor mother. I’ll bet she was furious. I can just see it. Hilarious now. 😀 — Suzanne
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And pregnancy didn’t help her a bit. Remember that “pregnancy glow?” She had it a lot. Especially when she was mad.
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mothers don’t understand children just know best, do they? My mum swallowed a fly at a bus stop and because I knew the old song ‘ there was an old woman who swallowed a fly, perhaps she’ll die’ I badgered her and berated her to do something to stop imminent death. In the end she went to the chemist and bought some antiseptic, took it outside and gargled it. ‘Now your turn’. ‘But I didn’t swallow anything.’ The look told me all I needed to know about what I had to do.
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She was just pure evil. All you were trying to do was save her!
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