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Lost Iron Survey

I have looked everywhere in the house, closets, and garage -- except for three boxes way up on top of some garage cabinets -- and cannot find my clothes iron. I don't know what to do, so I'm turning the question over to MyBloggerstown residents. Should I

A. Ask for help getting those three boxes down, go through them, and ask for help putting them away again?

B. Buy a new iron at Wal-mart?

C. Take this as a sign from my Higher Power that I am meant never to touch an iron again for the remainder of my life, and respect that Power's wishes?

Guess which answer is my favorite.

posted on Aug 25, 2008 11:53 AM ()

Comments:

C, of course!
comment by jerms on Sept 7, 2008 6:18 AM ()
Well, C. of course. You could always borrow my iron, which is so rarely used that I don't know if it still works. I won't buy clothes that need ironing, dry cleaning, etc. Throw it in the washer, remove promptly when dry, smooth with hands and put on a hanger. Never buy linen or rayon. The Higher Power knows Arizona is muy, muy casual, and that those who iron are wrinkled wither as soon as they ride in a car and therefore look just like those of us who never iron.Isn't that like, totally cool?
comment by jthoneydew on Sept 3, 2008 1:12 AM ()
The love of my life has no idea what an iron is for-but I vote for #3
comment by grumpy on Aug 31, 2008 7:25 PM ()
I vote on #3
Remember if God wanted us to wear pressed clothes SHE would make fabric's non wrinkable (is that a word?)
comment by anacoana on Aug 28, 2008 11:55 AM ()
I only use my iron to press some knitted items and seams when I'm sewing but I do remember my mother ironing my dad's white, work shirts.
comment by nittineedles on Aug 26, 2008 12:09 AM ()
You know, I like that response, I'm going to post it at my site! Love you, Beautiful Beedith. Yes, it's a sign from God. Everything that needs Ironing gets sent out. Love, Stephy
comment by thestephymore on Aug 25, 2008 10:55 PM ()
The last time I touched an Iron was 1969. It was a long, hot summer, Chicago was in a heat wave with killer high humidity. I was pregnant, overdue, miserably uncomfortable. On this wretched day, I dragged the laundry out to the laundromat, and brought home all 47 of Larry Westermeier's work shirts, damp, to iron them.

I put away the laundry, dragged out the ironing board with it's shiny silver "nonstick" cover. We had a break from the heat, living in a basement apartment. I spent the afternoon Ironing shirts, the sweat dripping from my face to between my breasts. On I went, Ironing shirt after shirt, back, front, sleeves, cuffs, collars. Light spray starch on everything, a bit more on the collars. Moving almost automatically until all of them were done and hanging from a pipe in the living room, nice and neat.

I then stretched out on the cot Larry let me use, so he and Freda could use my bed. It was complicated. I was reading my book, Barbara Tuchman's "The Proud Tower," when Larry came home, he looked at me, and said, "You sat here all day doing nothing, you useless fat pig." Then he grabbed a quick shower, smoked some dope, and went out looking for action.

I sat there in stunned silence after he left. For maybe five minutes. then I got up, got my water spray bottle and the laundry bag, and in the cool of the evening, sprayed all his shirts, wadded them back up, shoved them back into the laundry bag, and stuffed it into the closet in my (then his) bedroom. I went back to my book, and didn't give it another thought.

The next morning, he came out and said "Honey, I need a shirt for work." I replied, from my cot in the living room, "Oh, they are all stashed in a bag, in the closer, waiting to be ironed. I don't feel good. Have Freda iron one for you." And rolled over and went back to sleep. Freda, on being awakened to iron his shirt, bitched a fit and fell over it. She grabbed her things and left.

Again came "Honey, I need a shirt for work." I told him the iron was in the oven, cooling from the day before, and the ironing board was in the hall closet. A bit later he came out and said "They all smell funny." I told him to put on a tee shirt and buy a shirt on the way to work. He sais "I need that money for dope. I responded, "I don't feel so good. I think I'm gonna throw up." I sat up and reached for my puke bucket, (this was not an easy pregnancy) and out the door he went. Yea verily, I have never since put hand to ironing board. I have known people who do, but I am not one of them. Barbara Tuchman's book led to other interesting books, the basics of early feminism. That was my "click" moment. The next night, I slept in my bed, and told Larry he and Tara, who had replaced Freda,"could certainly use the cot, goodnight."


comment by thestephymore on Aug 25, 2008 10:51 PM ()
You already know the correct answer!

A. really seems like a bad idea!
comment by jjoohhnn on Aug 25, 2008 12:10 PM ()

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