Apr 01 2009
Sewing on Sundays
Did you know that sewing on Sundays is punishable in the afterlife? Me neither, till I came across this gem of an old wive’s tale. It’s said that if you sew on Sundays, when you get to heaven, you’ll have to pick stitches out of your nose. Yeah, really!
Are you ok? I can hear you laughing from here and if you don’t stop, you may hyperventilate. Breathe.
How does this even work? Are there exceptions to this? Say, for example…
It’s Sunday and you’re about to leave for church, but the threading on your waistband is coming loose. You can’t change because what you’re wearing is your only clean Church Outfit, so you grab the trusty needle-n-thread and work that puppy back on real quick and get going.
Does the fact that you’re going to church negate the afterlife punishment? Or does it make it worse (vanity) and create cause for further punishment…like…maybe…say…having to pick the threads out of your ears as well as your nose?
How does this work for someone who doesn’t believe in heaven? There are so many places to go with a tale as ridiculous as this one that there’s nothing left to do but wait for Sunday. We can sew handkercheifs and wait for our poker buddy to come over. That way, we can see if perhaps the Devil shows up while we’re dealing crads and ask his/her opinion about this sewing on Sunday business.
Apparently, a lot of those “old wives” didn’t have anything better to do than sit around making up ridiculous stories. Perhaps it was because they didn’t want to be roped into repairing clothes on Sundays!