#52
Glad you liked the story and were able to fill in the blanks. That sentence was supposed to read something like:
"My grandmother would VERBALIZE out loud and in detail what she was doing ... etc. ... for the benefit of 3-5 year old me ..."
I forgot to mention that she did check tags, but for fabric content, not care instructions, lol.
My mom must've had a 10,000x stronger dose of this instruction growing up, which was it was very odd that when my dad had Alzheimer's and had (cough, cough) "hygiene issues" she had a problem getting his clothes, bedding, etc. clean. I went up for a long weekend to give her a break and found all sorts of weird sh*t for laundry supplies. I blocked it all out of my mind and headed to the store to buy my own. I washed EVERYTHING.... including the 'clean' items. Suffice to say my mom came back to find gleaming whites. She asked how I'd done it and I explained. She came back with, "Oh, I just followed what the tags said." My mother never would've done that while I was growing up and G'ma would have been more than a bit surprised, had she been alive to hear it.
Looking back, I think my dad might've driven her around the bend before he passed on.
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As for the other issues, I'm afraid I grew up surrounded by nurses. They were completely successful in brainwashing me into viewing sanitation, disease management, etc. exactly as they all did.
I could elaborate on that and why my mom made me wonder if she somehow caught Alzheimer's from my dad, but those are both WAY off topic.
