What do you do to impress people?

I'm pretty impressed with that avatar, Vince.  Very clever. 

It's a lovely still life, Vince.  :-)

LOL

I can remeber when we use to press sheets for the hospital I worked for and we'd do this little "dance" we use to call "Dancing with Matilda".....as we folded those large sheets up into smaller bundles.

I spent the better part of two days as an laundry supervisor working out how to fold twin bed flat sheets so they could be placed on an bed and the patient only having to be turned on thier side in order to change the sheets if need be.

I also discovered fine grade sandpaper, will take off the the little fuzzy nits and lint on sweaters if you use it lightly over them...then lightly brush over the sweather with an damp cloth also helps picks them up. 

We used what was called an "Mangle" ironer....and it was about some 7 feet long, The wheels on it could be rolled so the item you were ironing went to people on the other side to pick and fold, or they reversed to send things back to you. The smaller pack items we ironed came back to us and then went into an onclave, I think they called it... and were sterilzed as surgical packs. We had an lady that came into and did that work separately. First time I used the smaller one at the nursing home...the lady instructed me how to do that one, she put one item in and let it roll all the way through and back to her before she's put another one in it...I had to laugh..it must of taken her all day pretty much. so I showed her how we did at the hosptial and stagered one hand towel beside another and kept them going constantly...then handed the stack over to be folded...though if we let the rolls do it slowely we sometimes were able to fold them up and feed the ironer. It takes an lot of laundry to keep an facilty in fresh linens...we processed about 100 pounds every hour...about 10 hours an day seven days an week...that was only for about 104 patients daily. Now so much of this type of work is disposable paper. Use to be before they changed newspaper ink...and used alcohol in the printing ink...that the Red Cross trained us to use in an emergency situation un-opened fresh off the press newspaper for conditions that needed sterilized under wrappings....such as an mother delivering an baby on the way to the hospital...they take her out and need something to lay her on for the delivery....probably don't do that any more either much...so were the old days. Red Cross taught us how to use an large box or dresser drawer for an make shift cradle also.