Conversation, for Cecilia

My 5-year old granddaughter has requested conversation re-caps occasionally appear in my blogs. Cecilia, this is for you.

GRAM:  "Oh, wonderful! Our cottage has a dishwasher!"

GRANDPA:  "Um, Gram, that's not a dishwasher. That's a clothes washer."

GRAM:  "No, Grandpa, if that was a clothes washer, it would be in the laundry room."

GRANDPA: "Um, Gram, we don't have a laundry room in our cottage. In Europe, often the washer is in the kitchen -- IF you even have a washer. Many people don't have a washer."

GRAM:  "So where is the dishwasher?"

GRANDPA:  "We have no dishwasher. We will wash our dishes in the sink."

GRAM:  "Okay, we can do that. But where is the clothes dryer?"

GRANDPA:  "We don't have a dryer. Most people here don't have one."

GRAM:  "Then what do you do with the wet clothes?"

GRANDPA:  "Come over here to the window and I will show you."
 

GRAM:  "Oh! People hang their clothes outside!  That's what my mother did. You use clothes pins to hang up the clothes on the line. There are clothes pins here in the drawer in the kitchen."
 

GRAM:  "We can do this. Let's start washing clothes now."

GRANDPA: "Okay ... here, I'm putting some clothes into our washer. Oh, no. The washer is small and only holds 3 pairs of slacks and 1 nightgown."

GRAM:  "We will have to do many loads! This control panel looks complicated, but we can figure it out."

 
GRANDPA:  "There! I've started the washer but it's going to take over 2 hours to wash those 5 articles of clothing! Let's walk into the village and get an ice cream cone."

GRAM:  "Good idea."

LATER THAT AFTERNOON... GRANDPA FINDS GRAM OUTSIDE.

  GRANDPA:  "Hi, Gram!  Are you hanging up our clothes?"

GRAM: "Yes, I am."

GRANDPA:  "Gram, why do you have a clothes pin in your mouth?"
 

GRAM:  "Because that's the way my mother did it!  She always had a clothes pin ready to go!"

GRANDPA:  "I'll go start another load."