Saturday night, 9:30pm, Lawrence Kansas.
Ring ring....
Me: Hello?
Angie: Carol I need you to get something for me.
Me: Ok, what do you need?
Angie: I need some twisties real bad. Can you get some at the store and bring them to me?
Me: I'll see what I can do.
Angie: They are by where you get the vegetables at the store. Just pick me up some. I really need them.
Angie is going to owe Chris who dutifully picked up about 20 twisties or so on Sunday. He put them in the bag with the potatoes. No questions were asked at the check out. Angie has asked for rubber bands and paper clips before, but this is a first for twisties. She likes to be sure that items, once secured in a bag, do not come out.
How would Angie get on with those plastic clips IKEA sells? I've given up twisties completely since I discovered them.
No need for that wrist-action with clips. They're very cheap and they come in 2 sizes.
(IKEA, you owe me for this free publicity. But then, I owe you for inventing them).
Posted by: Chrissy | 08/19/2013 at 02:42 AM
My mother-in-law used to twist the wires one way, wrap them to the back and twist them again. Nothing was going to escape from a bag that she closed!
Posted by: Caroline | 08/19/2013 at 08:32 AM
Nothing melts my heart more than a (real) man who adds a few(20) twisties to the
Potatoes to help out his MIL. I tell 'ya Chris you're a man after my own heart.
I took my "messy" drawer a.k.a. My "go to drawer" over to a friend one day. My friend is in her 80's and loves "projects". Included a pkg. of 4"X 6" zip-lock bags.
I asked her if she would help me "organize" it. Now if you have a "messy" drawer you
Know it can include anything from rubber bands, twisties, batteries, pencils, paper clips,
Odd buttons, shoelace, acorn tops, etc., etc.
The following week on my visit to her, she presented me my drawer with 43 individual
Zip-locks. She then handed me a "pill" she found. Oblong in shape and a large "V"
Stamped in it. she said, "I think it's a pill and thought you best put it in your medicine
Cabinet. I swear, Scouts honor, I have NO idea where it came from and how it got there.
I
Posted by: Barbara Tarbox | 08/19/2013 at 08:43 AM
I forgot to add, it was a large blue pill with a "V" stamped into it, kinda' important to the
Story!!!???
Posted by: Barbara Tarbox | 08/19/2013 at 08:48 AM
You all are so funny. As we age you never can tell what is so important that we need something real bad! I never gave twisters a thought. But I sure love Twizzlers a lot. You never know when I need strawberry licorice really bad. HaHa. Gotta love the MOMMA!
Posted by: Kathy Pennekamp | 08/19/2013 at 04:39 PM
Love it. :)
Posted by: Judy H. | 08/19/2013 at 07:22 PM