Totie Fields

I spilled coffee all over myself as I was working, today, patted down and kept working.

Fixing supper, tonight, I looked down and realized I was still wearing my stained-shirt, which looked pretty bad.

I once heard Totie Fields tell Mike Douglas that no woman should ever greet her husband at the door after his hard day at work, wearing a day-stained dress, I used cold water and tried to blot the stain away.

Now, I am wearing a very wet shirt–the coffee had gone everywhere, recall–and there is still a hint of a stain. None of this looks at all good.

Somehow, I don’t think blotting with cold water was what Totie meant, at all. But I was a kid, back then.