launderedlace Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 (edited) [I'm on a slight roll - bear with me if you can! This one's definitely 'historic' but is a real observation, never recorded before, so I guess that's okay] I was in the organisation's office, staffed by the secretary and the bursar. I'd work stuff to sort with the secretary but had been chatting with the bursar, who remained in my line of sight She delved into the sleeve of her cardigan and extracted a shimmering, tidy, white triangle. Pinching it at one corner, the bursar gave her lace handkerchief a shake: nothing; she frowned with mild irritation. A more vigorous shake; this time she succeeded in forcing the fabric to tumble open. Not quite the smallest lace handkerchief ever, it was perhaps ten or eleven inches square, although the relatively deep lace border took up a good two inches of that width. Quickly, the bursar clasped her fully unfolded handkerchief to her nose: crisp folds and elegant lace very much in evidence. She blew firmly into the centre of solid white cotton; I'll admit I was slightly surprised by the loud gurgling of thick, copious snot. Finishing with a perfunctory wipe, the bursar crunched up her dirtied handkerchief and unceremoniously shoved it back inside her sleeve The takeaways? It very much seemed like this was a routine nose-blow as far as the bursar was concerned. No sense whatsoever of this being her 'special' handkerchief that would have to be treated gently. She had a nose full of snot that needed to be emptied; the tiny, pretty, lace handkerchief was expected to deal with it (as it probably had to after every fresh laundering) Edited May 19, 2023 by launderedlace Link to comment
Hankysneeze Posted May 20, 2023 Share Posted May 20, 2023 Excellent observation, thankyou for sharing with us. Link to comment
launderedlace Posted May 20, 2023 Author Share Posted May 20, 2023 3 hours ago, Hankysneeze said: Excellent observation, thankyou for sharing with us. That's perfectly alright - I enjoyed writing it down! Sooner or later (but not just yet!) I'm going to run out of 'historical' observations if I share them here at a faster rate than 'live' observations happen Link to comment
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