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And then this Bear, Pooh Bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, F.O.P. (Friend of Piglet's), R.C. (Rabbit's Companion), P.D. (Pole Discoverer), E.C. and T.F. (Eeyore's Comforter and Tail-finder)--in fact, Pooh himself--said something so clever that Christopher Robin could only look at him with mouth open and eyes staring, wondering if this was really the Bear of Very Little Brain whom he had know and loved so long.

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

you know you're away from home when...

it takes you 10 minutes to figure out which product in the supermarket is for washing clothes.
then, when you get home, you open the washer-dryer-in-one contraption to release a torrent of water onto the hardwood floors of your pseudo-spiffy corporate apartment.* you finally figure out how to make it work and it turns out it takes 2:34 (that's hours: minutes, not minutes: seconds), drying not included... but at least you (ok, let's make it your husband to keep this totally hypothetical....) have clean undershirts.

*spiffy enough, it turns out, that they left you some clothes-washing tablets, but you, in your ignorance, didn't recognize what they were for until you bought some of your own...

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At 10:00 PM, Abacaxi Mamao said...: It takes longer to wash clothing in Europe and Israel because the machine heats up the water first, rather than drawing it from a constantly-kept-hot hot water heater. I'm pretty sure their way is more energy-efficient, if not time-efficient.
At 3:19 AM, miriam said...: fair enough. i just wish i had known...

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"Bother!" said Pooh, as he opened it. "All that wet for nothing. What's that bit of paper doing?" He took it out and looked at it. "It's a Missage," he said to himself, "that's what it is. And that letter is a 'P,' and so is that, and so is that, and 'P' means 'Pooh,' so it's a very important Missage to me, and I can't read it. I must find Christopher Robin or Owl or Piglet, one of those Clever Readers who can read things, and they will tell me what this missage means. Only I can't swim. Bother!" Then he had an idea, and I think that for a Bear of Very Little Brain, it was a good idea. He said to himself: "If a bottle can float, then a jar can float, and if a jar floats, I can sit on the top of it, if it's a very big jar." ... "All boats have to have a name," he said, "so I shall call mine The Floating Bear." And with these words he dropped his boat into the water and jumped in after it. For a little while Pooh and The Floating Bear were uncertain as to which of them was meant to be on the top, but after trying one or two different positions, they settled down with The Floating Bear underneath and Pooh triumphantly astride it, paddling vigorously with his feet.

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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

you know you're away from home when...

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