Re: Hotrodding a Pfaff

NightMist wrote:
>>
> You know those central motor factory set ups are why my dad's side of
> the family thinks sewing professionally is a very dangerous buisness.
> Though I am not quite sure why they keep repeating the sad tale to me
> since all my machines have their very own motor, and it would take
> some doing to kill myself on one save by the most bizarre mischance.
> 
> Apparently one of my great aunts was working in a factory like that
> way back in the nineteen teens or twenties.  The story goes that one
> of her hairpins came out and when she stood up the loose lock got
> caught in the overhead belt and yanked her right off her feet and
> broke her neck.
> 
> I don't know how true that is. This is the same family that claims one
> of my uncles drowned because he went swimming too soon after eating
> and got a cramp.  Actual witnesses to the event re****t that he went
> boating while drunk, lost an oar, jumped in after it, and was too
> drunk to swim. It was a Moose Club picnic so there were a LOT of
> witnesses.
> 
> NightMist
> Big family, gallons of whitewash

ROFLOL!!  Family stories do have a way of getting embellished - and 
whitewashed.  It's hard to see how auntie got her hair caught.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15595/15595-h/images/imagep158.jpg
http://www.uwrf.edu/library/arc/images/RFsewing1931.jpg
Most managed to sew through a finger, though.
-- 
Joanne
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