The Bag Lady

This is a chance to use “Crazy” sung by Patsy Cline, written by Willie Nelson, and if her voice doesn’t give you a chill, nothing will.

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I survived, and live to tell the tale. If you want to skip the story, most of the prompt words are here in this paragraph. 🤓I know you are probably thinking there she goes again sharing another story from a long list of “living in an apartment” adventures, but I’m not forcing you to grant me a few minutes of your time. I trust you will scan and delete if necessary. If you are still reading and not left my site, I’ll strip the story down and not trap you into a long boring essay, or maybe not. No promises.

I was sitting in my room and it was cold, snowing and windy outside. (Dang, I wish it was a dark and stormy night.) I started to read blogs with my usual…..okay, maybe I am stretching it out…I digress. I heard a tink, tink, and thought maybe the wind was blowing ice onto the window. Followed the sound and found a wave of water coming from the apartment above me, through the heat vent in the bathroom. Then as I backed out, was plopped on from the sprinkler system in the ceiling. I’m not a panicky person, but I have limited towels and live by myself, so no big buckets or roaster pans to catch the torrent.

I grabbed a 13×9 pan and a popcorn bowl and by the time I got back into the bathroom the floor was under water. I threw down four towels, my complete collection, and called maintenance. I then saw water flowing out of the pantry on the floor and water coming down the wall in the living room behind the couch. The couch is a sleeper and I couldn’t budge it.

Maintenance called, said they were shoveling snow and would be right over. It seems the person above locked his two dogs in the bathroom and they turned the water on. How exactly? So that’s why I hear scuffling and whining and yelping. I thought it was the owner getting too rambunctious with his dog, but now of course I know he has two dogs and they fight. Apparently the place is pretty torn up. This is the second neighbor above me that has ruined their apartment with dogs.

At the moment the maintenance people are upstairs, vacuuming, drying, etc the flood. I have towels, etc and full water receptacles all over and I can’t empty them myself. They just checked on me and promise to come over tomorrow morning and clean everything up.

Where are you Murphy? I know you’re hiding here somewhere!

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You’ll only see it here, folks, on Channel 92. Tonight our “People Peering” episode features the lovely home of Mr. and Mrs. Donothing. As you can see, their living room reflects their personalities. We were going to interview them, but I think possibly they were distracted by a snack commercial.

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I ask myself

Often it seems

Why things are not as they seem?

It should be easy

The instructions say

So why is it taking more than a day?

I admit I’m not a tech

But why are things so complex?

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🎶Most music just soothes my soul.🎶

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The church bazaar was in full swing, as the wares for sale were spread on white tablecloths.

“These cookies look yummy! And the decorations are just beautiful!” Little Amy takes one from the table and bites into it. “Yikes! I think I broke my tooth!” Amy starts crying.

The bishop’s wife runs over. “Oh, I’m so sorry! Those are for hanging on the tree! They aren’t edible! Are you all right, Amy?”

Amy’s mom replies, “No worries, she was about to lose that baby tooth anyway.”

Shortly after, a sign was put up over the beautiful cookies: “Not edible, decorating only”.

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Remembering my youth when “With a song in my heart” was popular, I feel songs in general are a wonderful expression for any feelings you might have.

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“Snowing again, and windy too. I guess everyone just assumes moving day on the weekends will be great weather.”

“That’s only a theoretical set up by Murphy, of Murphy’s Law, you know him?”

“Sorry to say, I know him well. I agree it’s just like him to have perfect weather on the forecast, all week in fact, and moving day he lowers the boom with torrential rain, or blizzards like today!”

“You think Murphy will ever take a hiatus like the rest of the world, or just kept driving people crazy?”

“Probably not, it’s what he does.”

“Do you believe the rumors that Trump pays him on the side?”

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http://cyranny.com/2019/12/28/hiatus-word-of-the-day-challenge/

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Well how did everyone’s year go? I think mine just slipped by in a hurry. I guess that comes with age. In fact I just remembered last week I was a year older! Egads! I couldn’t possibly be that age! Then of course that horrid device, the mirror proves it true. I wonder if the cavemen or women ever tried to see their reflection in a lake? I wonder what they thought?

Only New Year’s Eve to go and we settle in for my worst month, the long, cold January. Oh well, I wonder what 2020 will bring us? A new President? We can always hope.

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