From Without a Map, a memoir by Meredith Hall:
My mother teaches me a lot …
She tells me I make lovely hospital corners on the beds. But once, watching me change my brother's bed, she scolds me as I lay the top sheet out, smooth and tight.
"Meredy, a man likes to have room for his feet. You always make a pleat for him like this." She draws the sheet into a ten-inch fold at the foot of the bed, then tucks it in tight.
"See? You don't need to bother with this on your bed, but you need to learn how to make a man's bed."*
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How has this lesson never been presented to me before now, me with my husband who kicks a rough tent space for his feet every night and complains every time I pull the covers taut??!
What else do I not know that is hiding in plain sight?
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| detail, work in progress; maybe it needs a pleat? |
