Lou Decruss wrote:

> On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:11:32 -0600, Kathleen
> > wrote:
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>>Lou Decruss wrote:
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>>>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.
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>
> LOLOL.. Great story!

Oh yeah, I forgot the last part of the instructions given as you were
handed the wash cloth and the Ivory Soap*...

"Puss, pits and pubes, kiddo, IN THAT ORDER."

*Ivory was the only soap they kept out at the clubhouse because if it
got away from you in the river it would float so you could grab it.