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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: E who wrote (51451)5/29/2000 8:11:00 PM
From: Gauguin  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
I need confirmed or disconfirmed that the "part of the furnace cover" was just what you thought it was, when in fact it was a little door to a built-in ironing board.

Is that right?

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I'm sorry. Yes; you're right.

The whole time I'd lived there I'd seen that grille. It was right adjacent to the breakfast table. But I'd never had anything built into a wall in a kitchen like that before; and had never had a built-in ironing board. Never even seen one.

This apartment place was built in the twenties or thirties, and maybe that's why; as most of our houses were newer. I always thought the grille was part of the back of the wall furnace, which was directly on the opposite side of the wall in the living room. Like this was the air entry; which is needed for those.

The holes were small enough you couldn't see in there.

Not sure I can convey the surprise when that thing fell out of there. Besides the racket everything made.

Or, as Lather said, the irony. (LOL)

I mean I'd gone twenty-something years or so without ever seeing one, and suddenly within minutes of finishing building one, I had another laid out on the table.

It was like they were in a rush to meet me.

(I ironed the shirt on mine, by the way.)

Of course, I could also consider the stupidity of the whole thing, but...."that way lies madness." What part was my fault?
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