Thursday, August 23, 2007
Vizhnitzer camp, among many others, comes home
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Not really related to this story, but it does involve coming home from the Catskills. Here's the scenario:
I'm loading the minivan up to the gills. Of course, like every experienced packer knows, you leave a little space for the dresses at the back of the van. You know your in the home stretch when its time to stuff the dresses in. Fast forward three hours later when you pull up at home. You start unloading 3,000 woman and children dresses on hangers, some of which took the opportunity during the trip to detach. Of course you try to scoop up 50 at a time, lose 3 or 4 of them on the steps going up, almost kill yourself tripping over the long flowing valor shabbos robes, which drags on the floor no matter how high you hold them up (despite being 8 inches taller then her!). But no time to save the fallen, every battle involves collateral damage. And let's not kid ourselves, a battle this is. So finally I reach the closet and are ready for the "stuff", which entails trying to squeeze a million hangers into a tiny space of free rod. Supposedly this free space once held all these dresses, uh huh. And then I discover that some of the hangers are turned the wrong freakin' way! What do to, what to do? My choices at this point are as follows: (i) put all the dresses down, pick out the renegade hangers, twist them around and then try the "stuff" again, (ii) attempt the "stuff" without adjusting the hangers and hope for the best, (iii) delicately transfer all the clothes to one hand and "snap" the maverick hangers around with my other hand (even if they are the non-snappable type) (really tricky maneuver requiring great dexterity) or (iv) shuffle the pile to allow the offending hangers to drop while keeping the healthy hangers in place (very, very tricky). I ended up trying all four alternatives with four different loads. I found that option (ii) was the most satisfying particularly since no was the wiser! When she'll find the robe crumpled on the floor in 6 weeks from now, I'll admonish her for placing it on a 2 inch kiddy hanger.
Please share your hanger nightmares or solutions!
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I'm loading the minivan up to the gills. Of course, like every experienced packer knows, you leave a little space for the dresses at the back of the van. You know your in the home stretch when its time to stuff the dresses in. Fast forward three hours later when you pull up at home. You start unloading 3,000 woman and children dresses on hangers, some of which took the opportunity during the trip to detach. Of course you try to scoop up 50 at a time, lose 3 or 4 of them on the steps going up, almost kill yourself tripping over the long flowing valor shabbos robes, which drags on the floor no matter how high you hold them up (despite being 8 inches taller then her!). But no time to save the fallen, every battle involves collateral damage. And let's not kid ourselves, a battle this is. So finally I reach the closet and are ready for the "stuff", which entails trying to squeeze a million hangers into a tiny space of free rod. Supposedly this free space once held all these dresses, uh huh. And then I discover that some of the hangers are turned the wrong freakin' way! What do to, what to do? My choices at this point are as follows: (i) put all the dresses down, pick out the renegade hangers, twist them around and then try the "stuff" again, (ii) attempt the "stuff" without adjusting the hangers and hope for the best, (iii) delicately transfer all the clothes to one hand and "snap" the maverick hangers around with my other hand (even if they are the non-snappable type) (really tricky maneuver requiring great dexterity) or (iv) shuffle the pile to allow the offending hangers to drop while keeping the healthy hangers in place (very, very tricky). I ended up trying all four alternatives with four different loads. I found that option (ii) was the most satisfying particularly since no was the wiser! When she'll find the robe crumpled on the floor in 6 weeks from now, I'll admonish her for placing it on a 2 inch kiddy hanger.
Please share your hanger nightmares or solutions!
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