Misadventure of my mom's shoe
Yesterday, after a nice noony nap, I decided to head out to town for a walk. Hence there I was, heading towards the kitchen window to retrieve my jeans that I was drying outside the window. When I tried to take in the bamboo pole in, I saw something shifted just below my eyes and before I knew it, my mom's shoe landed on the kitchen ledge one level below me. My mom wanted to dry her shoes and decided to balance them between 2 poles!
Darn!! At that moment, seeing the hapless shoe lying in an unreachable position, a few things went through my mind. Should I:
A. Tell my mom, and try some way to retrieve it
B. Pretend nothing happened, yawns~
C. Scream, create a scene and say that I was wrestling the shoe with an ugly crow and the shoe
landed down below in the end.
Weighing my options, or the lack of it actually, I decided to tell my mom. My mom(read aunt) then whined a little and I suggested going down to the neighbor's to get it back. But my dear mom told me they are not very friendly and might end up burning her shoe. I seriously doubted it but nonetheless fell for it and I began to build my tool to retrieve the shoe.
Maybe I just woke up then, but I realized how silly my "shoe scraper" was! It consisted of a bamboo pole, a pair of long chop sticks, a spoon(yes!!! wtf! A spoon!) and a clothes hanger attached together using cable tie. Initially I tried the pole alone but it was lacking about a feet more, hence I attached the other items when I realized how empty the kitchen was. At first, it was just the chopsticks, then came the spoon and finally, a hanger ;s haaha! The end came when I pushed out my final creation, slowly swinging my shoe scraper below, while my mom was holding my waist like a safety harness, and I was praying no one was watching this silly act. But bad things were meant to happen when you do silly things, and it did! The attachment of the spoon and hanger fell off and landed beside the shoe!
It was a Desperate Housewives moment. My mom and I couldn't stop laughing after and I decided I had enough! So down I went to my neighbor's, and when they spoke to me I tried to move to a darker part of the corridor when I pray they can't see my face well. I waited outside for a few moments before my very friendly neighbor returned with my hanger and told my he tried to retrieve the shoe but cant, but had pushed it down to the first floor.
Cost of shoe scraper: bamboo pole ($2), Chopsticks ($3), Spoon ($0.50), cable ties($1.00)
Time wasted: 1/2 hour
Moment when neighbor handed me my failed scraper: PRICELESS
Yes, orh what a day......
Darn!! At that moment, seeing the hapless shoe lying in an unreachable position, a few things went through my mind. Should I:
A. Tell my mom, and try some way to retrieve it
B. Pretend nothing happened, yawns~
C. Scream, create a scene and say that I was wrestling the shoe with an ugly crow and the shoe
landed down below in the end.
Weighing my options, or the lack of it actually, I decided to tell my mom. My mom(read aunt) then whined a little and I suggested going down to the neighbor's to get it back. But my dear mom told me they are not very friendly and might end up burning her shoe. I seriously doubted it but nonetheless fell for it and I began to build my tool to retrieve the shoe.
Maybe I just woke up then, but I realized how silly my "shoe scraper" was! It consisted of a bamboo pole, a pair of long chop sticks, a spoon(yes!!! wtf! A spoon!) and a clothes hanger attached together using cable tie. Initially I tried the pole alone but it was lacking about a feet more, hence I attached the other items when I realized how empty the kitchen was. At first, it was just the chopsticks, then came the spoon and finally, a hanger ;s haaha! The end came when I pushed out my final creation, slowly swinging my shoe scraper below, while my mom was holding my waist like a safety harness, and I was praying no one was watching this silly act. But bad things were meant to happen when you do silly things, and it did! The attachment of the spoon and hanger fell off and landed beside the shoe!
It was a Desperate Housewives moment. My mom and I couldn't stop laughing after and I decided I had enough! So down I went to my neighbor's, and when they spoke to me I tried to move to a darker part of the corridor when I pray they can't see my face well. I waited outside for a few moments before my very friendly neighbor returned with my hanger and told my he tried to retrieve the shoe but cant, but had pushed it down to the first floor.
Cost of shoe scraper: bamboo pole ($2), Chopsticks ($3), Spoon ($0.50), cable ties($1.00)
Time wasted: 1/2 hour
Moment when neighbor handed me my failed scraper: PRICELESS
Yes, orh what a day......
posted by Winson at
7:11 PM
1 Comments:
hahahahahaahahahah! i cant believe u'd rather make that tool(or watever u call it) than go ask ur neighbours nicely if they could help.
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