My mother’s funny story of how she and her sister went apple picking.
They worked together in a shoe factory, only in different workshops. My mother worked as a preparer, cut experimental shoes by hand, and Aunt Emma worked in the warehouse and gave out goods for the shoemakers. I don’t know, someone told them in the shop about an abandoned orchard with apples. And they got excited about it, and there was nothing in it. So they found some packing material and asked the seamstress to make them bags. As there was a lot of material, she sewed big ones.
They went to the abandoned orchard for apples with Uncle Sam in their car. He did not manage to drive close to the orchard; Uncle Sam stayed in the car. And my mother and Aunt Emma went to the orchard with bags and picked almost full sacks of apples. And when they had to carry them, hilarity struck. The sacks were so big that they could not move them. They began to drag two of them, taking a sack and dragging it a short distance, and then they came back for another sack. But looking at these bags they were torn apart by laughter, and they could not carry them in any way.
My mother asked her sister who she asked to sew the sacks, and she answered, “Yes, Eva asked her. And Eva had to work, so she quickly folded the material from the package, sewed it on both sides, and the bag was ready. So they carried these bags not much. Aunt Emma said: “I’m going to call my uncle to help me. Uncle Sam did not see the bags; they were in their bags. When Aunt Emma called him to help, he closed the car and came over. They sat on the grass and laughed to themselves. He came in and was shocked by the bags. He’s a man and couldn’t lift any of them.
So the three of them somehow carried the two bags to the car and could not load them into the car. They were putting apples into bags, and then the bags were loaded on the trunk of the car. When we got there, they told us, but they couldn’t help laughing.
