I'm so old I Remember when:

[Canadian Wind]

Not this girl! At housework I was an incompetent boob. My sisters would chase me out and do my chores.

Wish *my* sister had done that!

 

[Evadig]

Wish *my* sister had done that!

I wish mine would help out in the yard. Whenever there's yardwork to be down she's nowhere to be found .

 

[The Moonshiner]

Lol. Butterfly wings and pretty rocks, here.

You pulled the wings off butterflies

 

[BigBlueHen53]

You pulled the wings off butterflies

Of course not, you ghoul! When I found dead ones I collected them. Still do. I know better, now, than to put them in my pockets.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Of course not, you ghoul! When I found dead ones I collected them. Still do. I know better, now, than to put them in my pockets.

Lol, I knew you wouldn't.
Just wasn't sure where you'd come up with them from other then grills/radiators of vehicles.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Lol, I knew you wouldn't.
Just wasn't sure where you'd come up with them from other then grills/radiators of vehicles.

Very nearsighted. I spotted things on the ground that other people didn't.

 

[Sally PB]

My sister was the incompetent housekeeper. She did it on purpose? I think her strategy was to do it really badly so that mom got exasperated and didn't have her do it so that she herself would have to redo it.

 

[Canadian Wind]

My sister was the incompetent housekeeper. She did it on purpose? I think her strategy was to do it really badly so that mom got exasperated and didn't have her do it so that she herself would have to redo it.

I got yelled at so often about the 'quality' of my housework!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I did try. I must be OCD. I remember once Mom sent me to go clean the living room. I had a wonderful time. An hour or so later she came to check on me and boy did I get yelled at! There were still newspapers scattered everywhere, the room had not been vacuumed or dusted, slipcovers were awry... but every Reader's Digest magazine for the last ten years or so was in chronological order! I thought I was doing a wonderful job!

 

[Evadig]

I did try. I must be OCD. I remember once Mom sent me to go clean the living room. I had a wonderful time. An hour or so later she came to check on me and boy did I get yelled at! There were still newspapers scattered everywhere, the room had not been vacuumed or dusted, slipcovers were awry... but every Reader's Digest magazine for the last ten years or so was in chronological order! I thought I was doing a wonderful job!

Oh yes, my mom has asked me to help clean many times. We have a lot of books...by the end of the day the books have all been read and arranged neatly on the shelves, while everything else is still a mess.