My Mom and Her Ghosts

One of those days, my English teacher gave me a hard task. For sure she didn’t know how the mission to talk about my mom’s daily could be harder. After all, I thought that my mom's daily duties supposed doesn't has any other exciting and / or different activity.

She has an ordinary household’s life style. She wakes up in the morning, around 8 AM or 9 AM, sometimes she does the laundry, and other time she cooks something. But her favorite tasks are sewing and doing shopping. My mom likes to sew her own clothes, or at least she customizes them.

She doesn’t use to buy and dress a cloth. She always does some change printing her personal “touch” in her wardrobe.

My teacher’s intention was make me practice the use of the third person form on English verbs.  What she didn’t know, and neither I did, was that I would have a funny history to tell her.

But, when I arrived at home that day, almost at 11PM, my mom decided to wash clothes. Yes, she was decided to do it at 11PM, late in the evening. Can you believe it?

So, I decided don't argue with her that time. She is a grown up person, she supposed knows what she can does or doesn't  to do.

So, I went to my bed, while she keeps herself busy doing laundry in the middle of the night.

But, the funniest part starts now. When I arrived at home in the next day, she came to me, absolutely astonished, and told me: “Daughter I will never do the laundry at the night anymore.”

So, I thought she became a wise person but unfortunately she didn’t. She just was afraid about ghosts.

Yes, that’s it. She has been afraid about people whom already passed away.

She told me that she was doing the laundry when she started to hear something weird. Immediately she reminded of Mr. Geraldo, our neighbor whom passed away a few years ago, and thought with herself, “OH GOSH, Mr. Geraldo came back to catch me.”

When I heard that, I didn't controlled myself and I started to laugh loudly as a crazy person. Mom, I said, YOU MUST BE JOKING!!!

My mom goes to church every single Sunday, for more than 20 years and I cannot believe that she believes on ghosts yet!!!  In fact, I don’t know yet if it is a reason to laugh or to cry.

But the good things, about this experience, were that my mom promised me does not do the laundry at night again, and, during the last English class, I learned some good rules about the third person on English verbs and some things that I must use and / or avoid in English.

P.S.: One of more important things that I must avoid is, as we used to say as crewmembers is to avoid "TOO MUCH TAKA TAKA"!!!! (Sorry, but, this part will be comprehensible just for whom lives or have lived the "ships life")