Karma's BFF

As karma would have it. My best friend and I have the same first name. We have been friends since the 6th grade. Two of our children were even born within a month of each other. We are total opposites when it comes to personality but as karma would have it we go together like  Lucy and Ethel, like Laverne and Shirley, like Betty and Wilma, anyway you get it, right?
Not unlike our famous fellow duo's when we got together hi jinks and hilarity occurred. So sit back and at least get ready for a chuckle or two.

First up-Karma cleans house
Like most teens in the 80's we had house cleaning duties that were to be done before we could cruise town or hang out. My BFF and I would usually meet at one another's house and help each other with said house cleaning duties. On this particular day dishes were to be washed and put away, to save time we decided that we would use the dishwasher this was not really a time saver seeing how the dishwasher was heavy, the kitchen table and chairs had to be moved out of the way , then it had to be rolled across the floor hooked to the kitchen faucet, then plugged into an electrical outlet, then loaded with dishes, soap added then turned on. We tugged and pulled , grunted and cursed finally we got it all hooked up and ready to go but as Karma would have it there was no dishwasher type soap to be found anywhere. Not one to be put off by this we used the next best thing regular old wash your dishes by hand type soap. We squeezed in lots because we had quiet a few pots and pans in the dishwasher.
 We shut the door, twist the knob and go to the other end of BFF's house to the living room to watch T.V. we had about 10 channels to choose from. After a watching a couple of daytime T.V. shows we decided to check on the dishwasher. BFF hops up from the couch, walks down the hall and I hear a shout and a curse word or two. I hop up run down the hall were to my surprise and hers we see a mountain of bubbles I am talking the Lucy and Ethel sit-com type that if I had not seen it with my own eye's I would not have believed it. The bubbles were ankle deep and all over the kitchen floor.
What do we do, oh crap, crap,crap I think we broke the dishwasher. BFF makes a quick call to her aunt to ask a strictly  rhetorical question about the dishwasher. After BFF hung up the phone she turned to me and said "Well the good news it is not broken , the bad news we better get a bucket and start bailing because mom will be home in about 30 minutes." We bailed , mopped , and toweled away the suds so fast you would have thought that it was Olympic event and we were going for the gold.
Like the kids in the Cat in the Hat just as we put away the mop and bucket we look out the kitchen window to see her mom approach. Her mom comes in and says " Wow did you guys mop the floor? All you really had to do was wash the dishes."
Stay tuned for more........

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