In movies of olden times, sometimes you see the women going to the door with a bucket of dirty dish-water, and throwing it out, into the street or onto the yard.
How come their shoes didn't get wet? And don't tell me that "they threw the water away from their feet." Yeah, sure. You try throwing a dozen or more buckets of water each day and see how dry your shoes stay.
And I wonder how many spoons they threw out into the street? You can't see through the dirty dish-water to see if you missed any of the dishes lurking in the bottom of the bucket. And whoopsie-splash, there go the spoons with the water.
Thursday, September 06, 2007
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Thinking about when I was a kid and there was a collection of items that had been dug up when they were building the new house on my great-grandparents farm.... They tore down the house that had been there since the 1860's in the late 1950's. Among the things they found buried in the yard were several spoons. We always wondered how they got there. You may have just answered our question. :)
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