Here is another funny story from our entries in the Funny Story contest. It's too funny!
Submitted by Carlene Tapley
So, have any of the folks at your website seen Whoopi Goldberg in Jumpin' Jack Flash??? I had a Whoopi moment recently. I made a sweet baby quilt using appliqued animal designs, a bunny, a teddy etc. After having worked for a week with my Designer SE I was carefully ironing the quilttop and had it draped over the ironing board. I hadn't noticed that directly below the ironing board was my paper shredder!!! The very heavy duty top of the line one so it would work really well paper shredder, I might add. As I ironed I heard this funny noise and suddenly a look of horror crossed my face and I did indeed pull a Whoopi and was trying like mad to make that darned machine turn loose of my quilt! It took me a minute to realize that I had to pull the plug as the shutoff button was not responding...I pulled hard on the plug just about the time I burned the motor up on the shredder. Lord, it had eaten 4 squares of my quilt!! After I got done cussing I could see the humor involved and was grateful I had just enough extra fabric to redo the squares that had been "eaten". It all turned out well, but there was chaos in the sewing room for a little while. The offending machine is now reduced to a wastebasket as the motor was toast! Thanks for listening to the "Perils of Carlene"...sigh
