Granny Sugden’s house may have been warm and cosy, but she always had cold feet. She would put several socks on and slip her socked feet into fluffy slippers as she sat in her arm chair to watch television. All to no avail. Her feet stayed cold, and that was that. The only time she had warm feet was in the shower.
Granny Sugden’s granddaughter had a brainwave; she would buy a pair of those heated house slippers that plug in. Sort of like an electric blanket only in the shape of slippers, both slippers joined by a safe electric wire. That way Granny could watch television with her feet cosily tucked away.
The granddaughter found a pink pair. Happy Birthday Granny! She opened her parcel and was… delighted. Thrilled! Of course, there was no electric plug near her armchair, but the problem was solved with an extension cord. Just the bee’s knees, said Granny. Just the cat’s pyjamas! Just what the doctor ordered! Her granddaughter left to go home, with Granny sitting in her armchair as content as could be. She would have purred if she had been a cat.
An hour or two later the granddaughter thought she would check to see how things were going. She phoned. Granny leaped out of her chair and went to dash to the sideboard to get the ringing phone. She forgot that her slippers were wired up together. She tripped and hit her head on the coffee table.
Granny Sugden never had to worry about cold feet ever again.
Oh, no. Bruce! 😦
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I suppose that’s why they’re called slippers!
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Rhymes with trippers. Coincidence? I think not.
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Loved the story…I thought Granny was going to step into some water and be electrocuted but the coffee table did the trick.
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She could’ve taken a shower with the electric slippers.
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Yep! I don’t know why I thought she was going to do that for…I guess it was the electric part of it. I enjoyed the story nonetheless.
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I wanted everyone to presume she was going to get electrocuted!
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Ya got me!
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Old habits die hardest. But I am glad she wasn’t barbecued due to short circuit.
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I don’t think there have been many (if any) electrocutions in these stories. I should make up for it!
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As they say, better late than never.
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You’re wicked ‘Muriel’, sorry Bruce. Duhhh Hehe
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🙂
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Death by electric slipper cord! Catastrophe lurks around ever corner.
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Problem solved, and so efficiently!
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Ha! Ha! It does pay to get cold feet.
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Wooh! Poor granny! I never expected this. I guess her granddaughter gifted her a gift to last a lifetime!😥
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Hee hee!
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