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Mother-in-Law Tip for Reading Manuals

May 11th, 2009 | Posted in blog 4 Comments »

While eating dinner at my mother-in-law’s house today, I stumbled across the following curiosity in the bathroom:

Manual in bathroom as reading material

Kind of an ingenious strategy. A tribute to the cunning intelligence of mothers everywhere!

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4 Responses to “Mother-in-Law Tip for Reading Manuals”

1. Curt Hunter says:

   May 11, 2009 at 6:10 am

   My favorite post. Ever.
2. Jasmine says:

   May 11, 2009 at 7:16 pm

   Is this a follow-up to your April Fool’s post? Hilarious.
3. Ron Creel says:

   May 12, 2009 at 12:53 am

   Funny.
4. Gracie says:

   May 31, 2009 at 11:37 pm

   Ha ha ha. Is this like a hint: “It’s your turn to do the dishes!”
5. Yvonne Blonder says:

   March 29, 2011 at 9:09 am

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   cheers for this helpful blogpost ill recommend your site to my class mates as we have been searching for this for decades lol.