Waving the white flag

I just thought I’d share this amusing incident with you and your readers.

Starting to load the washing machine with dirty clothes, my son asked me to make sure his work clothes were dry before the next morning, I don’t know why he asked me because it was a rarity if his washing and drying wasn’t done. (I’m well trained that way!) Anyway dutifully I ensured it was done, and as usual I laid the clothes out for him over the back of a chair in his bedroom.

The next evening he came home from work and accused me of making him a laughing stock at work! I protested my innocence, as I didn’t know what he was going on about. He explained he’d been walking around work with a lump under the back of his jumper, he couldn’t figure out why some of his workmates started calling him Quasimodo.

After a couple of hours of this, one of his mates told him about the lump. He did an arm breaking retrieval, feeling for the mysterious lump under his jumper, then at last out came the offending object and he found himself waving like a flag a pair of pristine white ladies knickers (mine!). As you can imagine this caused even more laughing and name-calling.

Luckily my son does have a sense of humour and he couldn’t stop himself laughing as he told me the tale.

In my defence though, I was using products that claimed to cut down on static electricity generated in clothes during machine drying!

This incident happened about three years ago or more but I still chuckle when it comes to mind.
Wynne Marsh