Spares in the thing
Dec. 17th, 2012 04:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rscThe "Subject" line of this post, in isolation, might appear to be a fairly cryptic message.
We keep a small spiral notebook on a hook in the kitchen, on whose pages we write grocery lists. This morning,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jwg, noting that the current book was almost out of pages, looked on the shelves above it and around it, and, not seeing any more such books, asked me if I knew if we had any more, and if so where they were. I did not.
This afternoon, preparing to go out, he tore the current page from the book, revealing the very last page, on which was written the above message.
This might still seem cryptic, but we both knew that "the thing" referred to a piece of furniture in the living room that contains both bookshelves and drawers, and upon looking into one of the upper drawers, he found several spare grocery-list books. He took one of them out and hung it on the hook.
But not before writing on the last page...
We keep a small spiral notebook on a hook in the kitchen, on whose pages we write grocery lists. This morning,
jwg, noting that the current book was almost out of pages, looked on the shelves above it and around it, and, not seeing any more such books, asked me if I knew if we had any more, and if so where they were. I did not.This afternoon, preparing to go out, he tore the current page from the book, revealing the very last page, on which was written the above message.
This might still seem cryptic, but we both knew that "the thing" referred to a piece of furniture in the living room that contains both bookshelves and drawers, and upon looking into one of the upper drawers, he found several spare grocery-list books. He took one of them out and hung it on the hook.
But not before writing on the last page...
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Date: 2012-12-17 10:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-18 12:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-18 02:59 am (UTC)Don't forget to write on the FIRST page of the LAST spare:
"More spares"
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Date: 2012-12-18 03:33 am (UTC)It's kinda cute - IMO.
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Date: 2012-12-18 04:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-18 04:52 pm (UTC)as to "the thing" -- my sister for years had a similar cupboard-drawer item of furniture purchased early in her marriage (when money was tight) from the Salvation Army used-goods charity shop. It was therefore known, chez her, as "the Sally Ann". One of her children (who is now 39 and has daughters of his own, but was about 8 at the time) got in a terrible verbal tangle with neighbours when he referred to a similar item of furniture in their house as a "sally ann". He didn't know the allusions, and it all became very opaque for a while. I'm not sure he's forgiven his parents yet.