The Bag Lady

No need to prevaricate today. I just made the biggest drastic mistake I’ve made in years. Apparently I have abandoned any reasonable focus on the task at hand – laundry – and lost all perspective as I ended up packing my iPhone in the washer with said laundry.

As you might know I use a wheelchair and scooter, and the scooter has a basket which carries my cel phone at all times in case my clumsiness ends me unexpectedly on the floor or cement, which has happened a few times. But I digress. . .After my shower I had a few clothes to add to the washer so put them in the basket–mistake number one–to carry to the washer. Unknowingly I picked up the phone along with the clothing and threw it all in the wash–mistake number two.

Hearing a slight clunk after it started, I checked, couldn’t see anything, so shut the door and it started again–mistake number three.

Fixed coffee and went to grab my phone to read blogs, and noticed it was nowhere to be seen. PANIC! Put the scooter in rabbit mode–mistake number four–and practically rammed the washer! Clicked the off button, waited and got a bucket to take out soaked clothes and. . .my phone.😳🤯

I grabbed a towel and took off the protective back case and it looked completely fine. I shook it, tapped it and dried as much as possible. I’ve never had an iPhone and my other android phones I could dismantle easily. The iPhone, not! I broke two fingernails trying to get it apart to dry out the inside, no luck. I grabbed a loaf pan and rice and immersed the phone in rice. It still was looking fine and working so maybe no damage done?🥸

Of course my whole family is away this weekend so I can’t ask them to help. I checked google and all directions for removing an iPhone 7+ back are too difficult and require a set of special tools? Yikes. If the rice doesn’t work, I am keeping my fingers crossed the iPhone case is as “waterproof” as the ad says it is.

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Reflections to digest hoping for a chance to be astonished as I see myself in younger days. Turning the pages of a lifetime, seeing how time has passed and the need to capitulate to memories now seen as facts in black and white.

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https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2021/04/17/rdp-saturday-chance/#like-10893

https://fivedotoh.com/2021/04/17/fowc-with-fandango-capitulate/#like-56450

https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2021/04/16/astonished/#like-2502

https://amanpan.com/author/amanpan/

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Your voice is too loud

Cease the hate

Permit weeping for the lost

Softly bang the sorrowful drum

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https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2021/04/17/same-same-but-different-saturday-mix-17-april-2021/#like-21481

O is for old ways many still use today–some good, some should have never been used in the first place.

One is the prevalence of guns used to get what you want or what you think you deserve, as an individual or group. The horrible mash of violence in our country resembles a past older people like me hoped to forget is on the forefront every day.

Guns speak for these misguided or ignorant people now–they don’t want a solution or compromise. They don’t want to solve what they perceive as a problem in their small world, they just want to act out and they’ve been acting out with increasingly violent results.

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Full or thin, big or small

Cupid’s bow or pushed out pout

Lips in every person’s features

Tell us what you’re thinking.

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But “we don’t need no stinkin’ gun control”

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M for Mariella. My oldest sister to be exact, and she passed away, 91 years old, last week. Appeared fine weeks ago and then developed pneumonia. She was ready to be with her husband who died a few years ago. I will miss her but remember how funny and protective she was to me and all the great memories we shared. They had seven children and a huge family that grew over the years. She insisted she was happy and couldn’t wait to join her husband. I take solace in her words.

❤️❤️❤️

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Jill started laughing as she took out her phone. She was going to secretly record Joel as he stood uncomfortably at Marlene’s table. Jill dared Joel to ask Marlene out on a date, knowing she was engaged to his boss. Jill is such a troublemaker.

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https://cyranny.com/2021/04/14/april-14th-1minfiction-challenge/#like-57692

L for lines – great lines I love are the funny ones. I’ll just give one example from a series I’m streaming lately, NCIS. Besides the one I loved last week, which was “self helpless” which I thought applies to a lot of us but last night the best one in a long time:

Franks: Offer me a drink.

Gibbs: It’s six o’clock in the morning!

Franks: Well float a Cheerio in it!

Mike Franks is my favorite character on the show and I miss him.

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K is for kindness. Being kind is free, go for it!

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