On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:11:32 -0600, Kathleen
> wrote:

>Lou Decruss wrote:
>
>> Sounds like a truck stop. Real classy. I did once see a couple come
>> into a laundromat and strip down to their undies and wash the clothes
>> they had on. IIRC they went into the rest room for a long time most
>> likely for a whore bath.
>
>Oh lord, I thought that phrase was something my grandma made up. She
>and my grandpa had a log cabin in the woods down by the Meramec river.
>Water had to be pumped by hand from the well, so you took your baths in
>the river when it was warm enough, and took a "whore bath" with a basin
>of water in the winter. "Puss (meaning face), pits and pubes".
>
>Kind of an odd choice of phrase to use with your little granddaughters,
>come to think of it, although I wasn't bothered by it until somebody
>told me what a whore was.

LOLOL.. Great story!

Lou