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Freak Accident at Wally World *or* Praises for Waxed Linen Cord OTish
So I just got back from w.Mart. Needed some baby wipes, some milk, the
usual...oh, and some beautiful blue crochet thread (the bag is talking to me--it says if I want to put capri blue S. crystals on it, I need a band of blue crochet, too) and a pint of Haagen-Dazs that was on sale. Anyways, as I'm walking in, I notice this guy, with his three kids. This man looks TIRED. Like...find me a dark room to play Rip Van Winkle in, puh-lease! He reaches the carts just a moment before me. I see that the oldest child, a boy, is holding the youngest child, a girl, roughly 7 and 1, respectively. The dad is lifting the middle child, another girl, about 3, into the cart. (why the 3 yr old was getting in the cart and not the 1 yr old, I'll never know) Just as my hand is reaching out for my own cart, side by side to theirs, the freak accident happens. The 7yr old starts to drop the baby........the dad sees this.....instinctively reacts, and turns to the side to catch her........forgetting that he needed to actually get both feet of the 3 yr old into the foot holes and her butt on the set before she was "secure".........the 3 yr old slips, tumbles forward and to her left, right into............ME. Now, I was in the process of reaching for my cart, so my left arm was extended, and she fell right onto it. My hand wasn't above the cart rail, but below it, and the unexpected weight of that child forced my hand down until......my Saucy Majestic Bracelet caught on a loose piece of metal; part of the cart itself. You gotta picture this. She fell towards me from my left, onto the back of my left arm, with my palm facing down, and nothing to grab onto. The waxed linen cord that I strung the bracelet on caught on that spoke thingy and held, with her full body weight, long enough for my right arm to drop my lil purse and scoop under her. There was no way I could have reacted fast enough to save her from hitting the concrete floor face first. So, I am singing praises for waxed linen cord, and cheap base metal clasps. BTW.....I yelled at that guy for a good 3 minutes about the dangers of having children mind children, which was the cause of the incident in the first place. I felt kinda bd about it, because one look at him, and you could tell that getting yelled at was commonplace for him, and probably not usually warranted. He had abused, exhausted husband written all over him. ~Candace~ |
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Candace -- glad you were there to help!
Becki "In between the moon and you, the angels have a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right." -- Counting Crows |
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Candace,
Wow. And I had always wondered what good waxed linnen was. marisa2 Candace wrote: So I just got back from w.Mart. Needed some baby wipes, some milk, the usual...oh, and some beautiful blue crochet thread (the bag is talking to me--it says if I want to put capri blue S. crystals on it, I need a band of blue crochet, too) and a pint of Haagen-Dazs that was on sale. Anyways, as I'm walking in, I notice this guy, with his three kids. This man looks TIRED. Like...find me a dark room to play Rip Van Winkle in, puh-lease! He reaches the carts just a moment before me. I see that the oldest child, a boy, is holding the youngest child, a girl, roughly 7 and 1, respectively. The dad is lifting the middle child, another girl, about 3, into the cart. (why the 3 yr old was getting in the cart and not the 1 yr old, I'll never know) Just as my hand is reaching out for my own cart, side by side to theirs, the freak accident happens. The 7yr old starts to drop the baby........the dad sees this.....instinctively reacts, and turns to the side to catch her........forgetting that he needed to actually get both feet of the 3 yr old into the foot holes and her butt on the set before she was "secure".........the 3 yr old slips, tumbles forward and to her left, right into............ME. Now, I was in the process of reaching for my cart, so my left arm was extended, and she fell right onto it. My hand wasn't above the cart rail, but below it, and the unexpected weight of that child forced my hand down until......my Saucy Majestic Bracelet caught on a loose piece of metal; part of the cart itself. You gotta picture this. She fell towards me from my left, onto the back of my left arm, with my palm facing down, and nothing to grab onto. The waxed linen cord that I strung the bracelet on caught on that spoke thingy and held, with her full body weight, long enough for my right arm to drop my lil purse and scoop under her. There was no way I could have reacted fast enough to save her from hitting the concrete floor face first. So, I am singing praises for waxed linen cord, and cheap base metal clasps. BTW.....I yelled at that guy for a good 3 minutes about the dangers of having children mind children, which was the cause of the incident in the first place. I felt kinda bd about it, because one look at him, and you could tell that getting yelled at was commonplace for him, and probably not usually warranted. He had abused, exhausted husband written all over him. ~Candace~ |
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Well, normally, I use it for micromacrame. But I do occassionally use it for
bead stringing. Now I can add *child dangling/rescuing* to the list Candace, Wow. And I had always wondered what good waxed linnen was. marisa2 |
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Dumb question: what is migromacrame? Can we see a picture?
marisa2 Candace wrote: Well, normally, I use it for micromacrame. But I do occassionally use it for bead stringing. Now I can add *child dangling/rescuing* to the list Candace, Wow. And I had always wondered what good waxed linnen was. marisa2 |
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sure, gimme a few moments..I'll put it up so y'all can see my fave piece.
Dumb question: what is migromacrame? Can we see a picture? marisa2 Candace wrote: Well, normally, I use it for micromacrame. But I do occassionally use it for bead stringing. Now I can add *child dangling/rescuing* to the list Candace, Wow. And I had always wondered what good waxed linnen was. marisa2 |
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Dear lord. I feel sorry for him right now. I bet he just wanted to crawl
in a hole. OTH - the bracelet saved the day and probably a trip to the hospital for a little girl. I can see the headlines now...."Woman saves baby with bracelet she made." :-) -- Starlia Klopman www.klopmanstudios.com "Candace" wrote in message ... So I just got back from w.Mart. Needed some baby wipes, some milk, the usual...oh, and some beautiful blue crochet thread (the bag is talking to me--it says if I want to put capri blue S. crystals on it, I need a band of blue crochet, too) and a pint of Haagen-Dazs that was on sale. Anyways, as I'm walking in, I notice this guy, with his three kids. This man looks TIRED. Like...find me a dark room to play Rip Van Winkle in, puh-lease! He reaches the carts just a moment before me. I see that the oldest child, a boy, is holding the youngest child, a girl, roughly 7 and 1, respectively. The dad is lifting the middle child, another girl, about 3, into the cart. (why the 3 yr old was getting in the cart and not the 1 yr old, I'll never know) Just as my hand is reaching out for my own cart, side by side to theirs, the freak accident happens. The 7yr old starts to drop the baby........the dad sees this.....instinctively reacts, and turns to the side to catch her........forgetting that he needed to actually get both feet of the 3 yr old into the foot holes and her butt on the set before she was "secure".........the 3 yr old slips, tumbles forward and to her left, right into............ME. Now, I was in the process of reaching for my cart, so my left arm was extended, and she fell right onto it. My hand wasn't above the cart rail, but below it, and the unexpected weight of that child forced my hand down until......my Saucy Majestic Bracelet caught on a loose piece of metal; part of the cart itself. You gotta picture this. She fell towards me from my left, onto the back of my left arm, with my palm facing down, and nothing to grab onto. The waxed linen cord that I strung the bracelet on caught on that spoke thingy and held, with her full body weight, long enough for my right arm to drop my lil purse and scoop under her. There was no way I could have reacted fast enough to save her from hitting the concrete floor face first. So, I am singing praises for waxed linen cord, and cheap base metal clasps. BTW.....I yelled at that guy for a good 3 minutes about the dangers of having children mind children, which was the cause of the incident in the first place. I felt kinda bd about it, because one look at him, and you could tell that getting yelled at was commonplace for him, and probably not usually warranted. He had abused, exhausted husband written all over him. ~Candace~ |
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http://snipurl.com/5su3
there ya go It's made with black waxed linen cord, and size (E) 6/0 glass beads. Only took about 3-4 days, cause I was going blind trying to tie all those teensy tiny knots. ~Candace~ |
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LOLOL.....I'm just so glad she wee one was okay. She clipped her eyebrow on
the cart rail, but not even hard enough to break the skin. And the poor dad was pathetic, not in a "laugh at him" kinda way..just the basic meaning of the word. Dear lord. I feel sorry for him right now. I bet he just wanted to crawl in a hole. OTH - the bracelet saved the day and probably a trip to the hospital for a little girl. I can see the headlines now...."Woman saves baby with bracelet she made." :-) -- Starlia Klopman www.klopmanstudios.com |
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MAN.
~~ Sooz ------- "Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance ~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links http://airandearth.netfirms.com/soozlinkslist.html |
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