The forces of nature

[pameladean]

My bed includes a futon that needs to be turned once a week. It weighs 96 pounds. Why I thought this was a good idea I cannot imagine. Raphael used to help me with this, but can't now for fear of back injury.

It's quite doable with a few tricks; it is not necessary to ever pick up the entire weight of the futon or even half of it. It's mostly just bloody annoying.

I went to turn the futon last night. I only have one mattress pad, which is in the wash. I'm using an old acrylic blanket as a pad in the meantime, and I've got a polartech blanket on the bed in the usual blanket position.

They were both crackling with static electricity to an amazing degree. And thus the following conversation took place.

P: Get out! Get out of there! (shaking blankets and trying to keep away from metal objects)

R: What are you yelling at?

P: The static electricity. (astonished pause) You got a problem with that?

R: No, ma'am. You cuss at the forces of nature, I'll just go back in the kitchen.

Comments

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Pamela, I am weeping with laughter. I have almost fallen out of my chair, I'm laughing so hard, and now my stomach muscles ache.

I don't know if anybody else will find this as funny as I do, but *snort*snerk*giggle* ... no, it's no good, I'm laughing again.

[pameladean]

Oh dear, that got me started again. We too thought it very funny. Much the most entertaining mattress-turning session I've ever had. Maybe I can get R to take a bow. In these matters, the deliberate rather than the inadvertent comic touch generally belongs to her.

Pamela

[elisem.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm right there with ya, *snort*snerk*giggling* along.

Silly Obble. Silly excellent Obble. Pretty excellent R., too.

[cattitude.livejournal.com]

Are there people that don't cuss at the forces of nature? My goodness, that's why we anthopomorphized them in the first place!

So how did Ethelred Kilowatt (Reddy Kilowatt's slower brother) take to being yelled at?

[pameladean]

I feel compelled to note at this point that I slightly misheard my sweetie, who said, "You cuss OUT the forces of nature." That said, Ethelred (*snicker*) zapped Raphael when she kindly removed a cotton sheet from the bed and tried to put it down the laundry chute for me.

Pamela