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Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for October 18, 2013
October 17, 2013
October 19, 2013
Transcript:
Rose: What's going on?
Jimbo: We are statues!
Pasquale: We were bored...it gave us something to do!
Jimbo: A statue never admits to being bored if there are socks to be sorted.
Pasquale: A statue should never speak!
Who sorts socks?? Clip āem together with safety pins or sock clips when you throw āem in the laundry basket. Cāmon Rose, quit making extra work for yourself and you wonāt need that Leaning Tree!
In our apartment here in āthe homeā we fold everything. Old habits are hard to break. Beside those sock clips make noise in the dryer (the home has a laundry room on each floor and folks who are supposed to be hard of hearing complain about the noise plus safety pins prick the fingers). When you retire, all you have is time, so we hold the socks up to the sunlight, to tell the difference between navy and black socks, and fold āem. It is a time to be together and when my daughter-in-law comes to visit she is always amazed at the neatness of the socks, t-shirts, etc. folded by colors in the bureau drawers.
Thanks, Don and Pat! Now Iāll have something to shove at the three girl grandchildren, all of whom bore easily. (A net sock and underwear holder does eliminate the job, but we have about 1,000,000 spare sox piled up.) Sometimes five cents per match, juices up the motivation a bit.
I always had trouble trying to fasten socks together; they either came apart or the pins rusted into the fabric. Couple years ago I learned a very good trick: put them into a net washing bag. One per person. That keeps them all together.
LeoAutodidact over 11 years ago
Momās ALWAYS know how to fill "Empty Time!
duffer37 over 11 years ago
Who sorts socks?? Clip āem together with safety pins or sock clips when you throw āem in the laundry basket. Cāmon Rose, quit making extra work for yourself and you wonāt need that Leaning Tree!
Linda1259 over 11 years ago
In our apartment here in āthe homeā we fold everything. Old habits are hard to break. Beside those sock clips make noise in the dryer (the home has a laundry room on each floor and folks who are supposed to be hard of hearing complain about the noise plus safety pins prick the fingers). When you retire, all you have is time, so we hold the socks up to the sunlight, to tell the difference between navy and black socks, and fold āem. It is a time to be together and when my daughter-in-law comes to visit she is always amazed at the neatness of the socks, t-shirts, etc. folded by colors in the bureau drawers.
sbchamp over 11 years ago
āIāll find something for youā¦ā
Radical-Knight over 11 years ago
Statues require balanceā¦ Sock sorting requires sitting!
Gokie5 over 11 years ago
Thanks, Don and Pat! Now Iāll have something to shove at the three girl grandchildren, all of whom bore easily. (A net sock and underwear holder does eliminate the job, but we have about 1,000,000 spare sox piled up.) Sometimes five cents per match, juices up the motivation a bit.
Potrzebie over 11 years ago
If they want to play statues, they should step it up. Watch robot-boyz videos on You tube and try to copy them.
Puddleglum2 over 11 years ago
Socks get āsordidā if you wear them too long.
Puddleglum2 over 11 years ago
Rose is rather statuesque, herself, so she could sort the socks.
Puddleglum2 over 11 years ago
Rose isnāt the sort that sorts socks. She gets bored with it very quickly.
Thriller87 over 11 years ago
Jimbo caught in the Iām bored trap classic.
LeoAutodidact over 11 years ago
Iāve always āMatchedā and āRolledā them. Keeps the Drawer tidy and the Cat loved to play with the āBallsā
(ācourse they DID kinda roll āfunnyā)
krisl73 over 11 years ago
When I was a kid, I used to love sorting the socks.
water_moon over 11 years ago
you wear āem you pair āem around here.
DKHenderson about 1 year ago
I always had trouble trying to fasten socks together; they either came apart or the pins rusted into the fabric. Couple years ago I learned a very good trick: put them into a net washing bag. One per person. That keeps them all together.