Kaylee: You're nice, too. Mal: No, I'm not. I'm a mean old man.

'Serenity'


Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Jesse - Mar 15, 2010 9:59:48 am PDT #16246 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I love that.


Ginger - Mar 15, 2010 10:01:34 am PDT #16247 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I own an iron. It's around here somewhere.

I would never have asked my mother to iron, because I'd get another round of how she ironed her brothers' Army uniforms.


ChiKat - Mar 15, 2010 10:03:41 am PDT #16248 of 30001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

I own an iron. It's around here somewhere.

Mine is in some dark corner somewhere.

My mom will do my laundry when I bring it to her house (which I sometimes do when visiting because her laundry does not require quarters), but only if she gets to it before I do. I do not ask nor do I expect her to do it. I always run a load of clothes the day before I leave of everything I've worn that week because...no quarters needed.


-t - Mar 15, 2010 10:04:21 am PDT #16249 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I used to have an iron. I might still, who knows?


Sparky1 - Mar 15, 2010 10:04:46 am PDT #16250 of 30001
Librarian Warlord

My uncle was allowed to mail home his laundry from college/grad school, but my mother was not. Also, she paid for her own grad school, while my uncle did not, because my grandparents reasoned that he would have a family to support some day. They promised to try to pay her back later, and lo, when my grandmother died there was an account with my mother's name on it... which my uncle pouted that he deserved 1/2 of (and got, for the sake of family peace).


Cass - Mar 15, 2010 10:05:47 am PDT #16251 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

I did at one point own both an iron and ironing board, but at some point I decided they weren't worth moving and left them behind at the old apartment.

You are my hero.

I try to lose mine but my mother always seems to make sure I at least own an iron and board. I suppose it's so she can iron when she's here? Lord knows I don't use them. Or know where they are.


Trudy Booth - Mar 15, 2010 10:06:29 am PDT #16252 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Once bunch of us were gettting dressed for a wedding and I watched my Grandmother and her sister Mimi argue over who got to iron my Uncle Mark's shirt.

Mimi's argument was that she NEVER gets to iron Mark's shirts and Grandma could do it next time. My Grandmother argued that Mark hasn't lived at home in YEARS and goodness knows when she'd get to iron his shirt again.

Meanwhile, I was standing in the doorway holding a dress. In time, each of my sisters appeared holding their dresses.

Apparently we were poor substitutes -- the children could wait and iron their own dresses while they fought over a grown man's shirt.


Hil R. - Mar 15, 2010 10:06:34 am PDT #16253 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I have an iron and an ironing board, but I can't remember the last time I ironed anything.


Sophia Brooks - Mar 15, 2010 10:11:25 am PDT #16254 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I also iron alot doing costumes, but I remember being really angry when I had to iron the Conductor's tux shirt. Like, doesn't it come from the drycleaners ironed? And I had to do it every day. Dude.


Calli - Mar 15, 2010 10:14:05 am PDT #16255 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

he brings his shirts over to her house each week so she can iron them. He is 27 years old!

Bwah! I can imagine my mom's reaction if I'd asked her to do that, well, ever really. Before I learned to iron I never had clothes that needed it. After I learned to iron Mom tended to discover things that she or Dad had that also needed ironing whenever I pulled out the board. She also encouraged me to bring home laundry whenever I'd come, because theirs needed doing too, and, you know, since I would be doing laundry anyway . . .