Posted on 01/17/2013 9:18:29 AM PST by virgil283
Mom thought it would be easiest for him to just put our hair in pigtails for school. So after we were dressed in our little catholic uniforms, he lined us up in front of the vacuum cleaner.
He wrapped rubberbands around the nozzle, and sucked half the hair into the contraption and popped off the band. Viola! Perfect pigtails! Eight of them in less than five minutes.
All the nun-teachers knew mom was away and he was taking care of us. My teacher expressed her amazement at how perfect my pigtails were as she wrapped some ribbon around them (he “forgot” the ribbon). I told her how he made the pigtails and I thought she would bust a gut! She laughed half the day over that. After lunch all the nuns were marveling about the perfect pigtails and giggling.
GREAT story .. that's seriously funny + excellent engineering .. thanks !
Let me guess, your Dad invented the Flowbee.
What’s a flowbee?
I wonder if that gadget works! No, thank goodness, my dad was not tasked with cutting our hair. Just pigtails. LOL
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