it looked a lot better then it actually was
when my sister and i were teenagers our nan, who lived alone, was very ill so my mum and auntie were taking it in turns to stay with her,mum during the week but on fridays the aunt, who lived in london would come and take over for the weekend, one particular w/end the aunt couldn't make it so thinking that mum would be gone sister and i decided to do what all good teenagers should and throw a party,
we decided that the safest course of action to minimise damage would be to remove all breakable items - including a very large collection of china ornaments from their shelves in the living room, stash them in mums bedroom and lock her door - however said ornaments had gotten dusty on the shelves and so on friday afternoon as we were taking them down we were washing them in a bowl of water...as we're doing this we hear a key in the front door and then mum calling out that she was home as auntie iris had made it down...my sister and i are exchanging horrified looks over the bowl of water and assorted ornaments around us on the floor as our mum walks in the living room - sees what we are doing and says "oh you girls, you girls... at which point the phone rings, off she goes to answer it and we hear her telling whoever it was what wonderful daughters she has because she came home early to find us cleaning her ornaments and it was a bit of a shame she had ruined the 'surprise' we were clearly planning for her and how happy we made her

me and me sister weren't too happy spending the evening at either ends of our road sending would-be partygoers away tho
(dirtycowgirl saw underworld and they blew me away, Sat 11 Dec 2010, 6:04, 1 reply)

Love this one...
... nice to have a story from the other angle!

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( Ugi , it's a game of give and cake, Mon 13 Dec 2010, 9:47, closed)