Friday, October 3, 2008

Fall Cleaning...After 85 Years!


OK, does ANYONE get the incredible irony in this pix!
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So, following Mrs O's funeral, Kathy and Mary get hard at work doing the painful deed; cleaning out her apartment, and her 85 years of memories...and stuff. Kids pix, report cards, paper mache' alice cooper art projects, just tons of stuff that accumulates over the course of a lifetime.
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They're over there today, emptying a dresser, and when they pull the dresser drawer out, a "massive alarm" goes off. They quickly push the dresser drawer closed, wondering why their late mother would have the dresser alarmed. Maybe that's where she kept her Bingo winnings...
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5 minutes later there's a pounding on the door; When they open it, the hallway has lights flashing, alarms going off, and a crew of fireman in full gear. Turns out that each elder resident has a "ripcord" fire alarm in their bedroom in case they can't get out of the apt to pull the traditional hallway fire alarm. Mrs O had just stuck the ripcord into the dresser drawer; the girls never knew it existed.
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OOPSIE!
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"Fire Marshall Bill" Lumpy out

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