I am in Wichita Falls celebrating with our mother her 88th birthday. Kathleen and Matthew (of course) are here as well. It is 9:10PM on Friday night and already we have laughed and laughed and laughed.
Earlier, mother received a telephone call. I heard her say; "who is this?" pause "fine" and then she hung up. It was a telephone solicitor. So I suggested the next time she gets a call from a solicitor and they ask her how she is doing she should tell them she is having a problem with loose stools. This brought to mind a memory of the 9th street house and the plumbing problems that occurred there. Mother and Matthew decided to conduct a very scientific experiment on the plumbing at the property. The test included mom going up to the garage apartment (my residence at the time) and flush the toilet. Matthew was suppose to observe the toilet in the house to see if it was affected by the flush. So, mom goes up to the apartment, calls Matthew and here is how the call goes:
called: "hello"
Mother: "I'm going to flush the toilet and I will be right down."
called: "What?"
Mother repeats: "I'm going to flush the toilet and I will be right down."
Needless to say, mother had dialed a wrong number.
During the course of the plumbing problems a video was made of the main house toilet overflowing. It is a classic for our family. Tonight, Matthew wondered aloud, I wonder what happened to that video. The very next thing out of mother's mouth is; "the video of the overflowing toilet is out in the garage."
Out to the garage the three of us went. We did not find the toilet video, but I did find videos of Meredith and Jennifer when they were very small children. It is my hope that years and years in the hot/freezing garage did not damage them and that I can have them transferred to DVD.
There will be more reports from this weekend...so stay tuned.
Posted by Rita at September 12, 2003 09:19 PM