The Old Folks Home

[Bunnylady]

Is the idea that remarkable to you, Alaskan?

 

[perchie.girl]

::Snort::

 

[Alaskan]

Yes, yes it is.


Especially because I envisioned clean pants with no holes.

 

[chickisoup]

Yes, yes it is.


Especially because I envisioned clean pants with no holes.

Are those a real thing???

 

[Alaskan]

I don't know.. I know I can immagine them though.



Spouse made a comment about the youngest going into town yesterday with pants that had one (yes, only one) giant hole over one knee (like 4 inches in circumference showing leg), and the pants only barely went down past his knees... With no socks, and giant boots that he had taken from a much older brother.

I said it was a great improvement over the day before, where his clearly too small pants showed half hus back end.

Then this morning when youngest, AGAIN stole boots from a much older brother, we asked him what was up, he said his boots were too small. The look that child 2 gave to child 5!!!!!! Looked just like mine back when I used to buy my kids clothes from the store!!!

I told 2 that, he said "really?" He didn't remember me ever buying them clothes from a store. I said yeah, when I only had 3 kids, I would go to Fred Meyers (like walmart) in the fall, and buy the older two a full set of snow pants, coat, and snow boots, and then give them that same look that 2 had just made, if they dared to grow out of them before winter was over.

 

[Bunnylady]

It has been known to happen - in the period between purchasing said pants and getting them home. Once they come out of the bag or box, though, all bets are off.

 

[Alaskan]

Someone up here just bought brand new pants from the store, brought them home and only then noticed that they had a tear mended with staples and duct tape

 

[perchie.girl]

Someone up here just bought brand new pants from the store, brought them home and only then noticed that they had a tear mended with staples and duct tape

So what they went commando in the store to change?

deb

 

[Alaskan]

The person bought pants for their dad... That is why the pants were not tried on... And why the horrid mend job wasn't noticed.

 

[Bunnylady]

I have bought a lot of "factory seconds" in my life, and learned to examine them carefully; that goes for anything on clearance, as well. But it takes a talent for overlooking the obvious to miss staples and duct tape!

There was a period in my life when my mother bought almost all of my clothes at the church rummage sale. I never met her, but there apparently was a girl that was a couple of years older than me, and a size or two larger. For years, I had a closet full of her "gently worn" clothes. For some reason, her mother put an iron-on name tag in almost everything she wore. If I had had an accident with my bike or anything, I think the first responders would have wasted a lot of time contacting Anna's family . . . . .