Toni: That would make anyone not want to do any manual labor again, especially a girl !
Nowdays, kids sue their parents for things like that.
We were the last people on our street to get a gas clothes dryer...in 1974, no less. People would always ask my mom, "Oh Marilynn...you always have such a gorgeous suntan and such beautiful red streaks in your hair. With 7 kids, when do you find the time to sunbathe?"
She'd say, "Oh hell. All I do is hang clothes on the clothesline every day...then I get to take the damn things down and hang up ANOTHER load."
When my last sibling was finally out of the cloth diaper stage, my dad bought her a dryer. She took one look at it and said, "I don't know whether to kiss you or punch you in the nose." So she punched him.
