On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 19:39:01 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
>"Jeßus" > wrote in message
>news
>> On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 01:12:30 +0000 (UTC), tert in seattle
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>Julie Bove wrote:
>>>> "Ophelia" > wrote in message
>>>> ...
>>>
>>>>> Back in the day I had a Singer treadle machine. Those things never
>>>>> went
>>>>> wrong and were so easy to thread. For years, machines would be
>>>>> threaded
>>>>> in the same way, but Not This One! Trouble is that I use it so rarely
>>>>> now
>>>>> I have to look it up how to thread the blessed things. After so many
>>>>> years it gets ingrained in your head how to thread ...
>>>>
>>>> My mom got a new machine years ago but never did figure out how to
>>>> thread
>>>> it. She even attended a class to learn how to use it. She wound up
>>>> getting
>>>> rid of it.
>>>
>>>hmmmmmm....
>>
>> Yep...
>> Bove in troll mode again.
>
>No. My mom is now pretty much blind. That had been going on for years.
>Far longer than she let on to me. Most likely the parts that she had to put
>the thread through were just too small and/or dark for her to see. I dunno.
>I never tried to thread it.

Fairy nuff, that explains it better and makes more sense (aside from
the exercise in futility involving your mom).