Pillow rules!  by happypat

Pillow rules!

I know a photo of a pillow!!
I was just thinking today as I changed beds how something that was drummed into me when I was training to be a nurse.
Sister in charge always told us to put the opening of the pillow cases away from the ward door.

I think of this almost every time I change beds even after all this time!
I don't think they bother with such rubbish these days but I still do it, it's drummed into me!

Three good things:
1. News from Grandson Jack as he starts a proper school term in Japan. He has been doing lots since he arrived at the end if July but this is the first week at school.
2. Meeting people I know while out shopping, I must have done almost more chatting than shopping
3. Despite a very wet morning I risked putting the washing out before I went shopping, they were practically dry when I got back.
Nice pov and I expect you do a neat hospital corners as well. I had to line up the counterpanes on each bed so that the central patterns of the covers formed a straight line down the length of the ward - 12 beds either side!!!
September 5th, 2017  
@snaphappi He he those were the days! So different now in UK hospitals!
September 5th, 2017  
Looks nice and plump! reminds me I need to replace my own pancakes!Haven't heard of that rule before.
September 5th, 2017  
Yes how important these corners and pillowcases used to be. Now hospital beds don't even seem to get made - let alone tidily!! @snaphappi @snaphappi
September 5th, 2017  
Bep
Never been trained as a nurse, but I always put the opening of the pillow cases away from the windows...
I'm sure that from now on I'll be thinking of you when I'm changing beds ;-)
September 5th, 2017  
@gijsje Ha ha you probably will, that will be nice!
September 5th, 2017  
@jesperani pancakes?
September 5th, 2017  
As soon as I started to read this I could hear my Sister Rob ( who was a nurse) saying besure to put the opening in the centre/ away from the door.. once a nurse always a nurse.. though I do like a very tidely made bed.. must go and make mine now .. I will be sure to place the pillows correctly..
September 5th, 2017  
@jesperani haha - I expect you started to type pillowcase and the autocorrect preferred pancakes! So do I!
I seem to recall the placing of the pillow too - away from the side of the bed. What nice pillowcase! Calling me to put my head on this pillow!
September 5th, 2017  
@maggiemae I was just bemoaning the fact that I have had this's pillowcases for so long & lots of creases in there!
Ah yes pillowcases are very like pancakes in the 365 world! @jesperani
September 5th, 2017  
Lol Hell yes and didnt they come down on you like a ton of bricks if not done Lets not forget turning the wheels of the bed in too
September 5th, 2017  
@julzmaioro very good Julz! That's what I like to hear! I must say I am heartened by all the following of orders down the years regarding the placing of the pillowcase!
September 5th, 2017  
@Dawn Ha ha is t this amazing we all had the same training! We had to take all the flowers out to & line them up outside the ward door, something about flowers using the oxygen up! No flowers allowed on wards in the UK now!
@maggiemae @julzmaioro @gijsje @jesperani @snaphappi
September 5th, 2017  
Mother told me to put the open pillowcase edges facing the outer edges of the bed. Funny she never mentioned windows and doors. I just love 365. Y'all made me laugh out loud with this comment stream!
September 5th, 2017  
@happypat lol!!! Pillows!!!! Autotext!!
September 5th, 2017  
@louannwarren for me 365 is far more than the photos Lou Ann! I like to know everything about my followers lives, where they live, etc etc! I also use it to remind myself what I did over the last few weeks!
September 5th, 2017  
My Mom was a nurse and she taught us about the sheet's "hospital corners" at the foot of the beds- but as far as the pillow cases - the edges face the edge of the bed.
September 5th, 2017  
Ha ha love the story. Amazing how rules stick. Mum was a nurse and before fitted sheets we always used to do hospital corners on the sheets. I did them well into my married life too. thank heaven for fitted sheets now.
I have lots of RAF rules that I still apply too. My main one is raising your glass as a salute. I hate it when people raise their glass and then clunk them all together. It makes me cringe. I just can't clunk a glass and have to explain what raising your glass at a party or dinner is all about. Air Force training stays with you for ever, just like nursing training.
September 5th, 2017  
@happypat oh how nursing has changed
September 6th, 2017  
@happypat I use Facebook to see what I wore the last time I was with my friends! Ha ha.
September 6th, 2017  
Great story
September 6th, 2017  
I've never heard that before but I tend to do it the same way as wel.
September 6th, 2017  
Loved reading all these comments and still can't quite work out why you would have the open edge away from the windows? I always put mine that way, away from the middle, I'll have to changešŸ˜±. I do hospital corners though, much prefer flat sheets with a good thread count!
September 6th, 2017  
@onewing I an imagine you would have similar rules in the RAF too Babs but never thought they would have extended to the bed making, made me think twice about raising the glass!! !
September 6th, 2017  
@Dawn @jgpittenger @kwind @jackie8

Because when I was nursing there used to be long wards, sometimes 30 beds down each side & visiting hours strictly laid down so that they were all standing outside waiting, Sister used to like their wards to look pristine so no baggy gaping pillowcases spoiling the look! So proud in those days of wards, I can remember scurrying around & then the final OK from Sister, 'right let them in'. You
September 6th, 2017  
@happypat oh yes Pat our wards long
A ward tidy prior not a wheel pillow sheet out of place those were the days
September 6th, 2017  
Very interesting
September 6th, 2017  
loved reading all the comments on bed making Pat. I always put the openings on the outside.
September 6th, 2017  
Definitely, and envelope corners, too. A habit I haven't lost
September 6th, 2017  
@Dawn Yes they were I think standards have dropped!!
September 6th, 2017  
@cruiser no Chris you can see them gaping then! It's so funny to hear everyone's thoughts, I never knew we all had such definite habbits that we always stick to!
September 6th, 2017  
@carolmw Yes hard to stop,doing something that was drummed into us!
September 6th, 2017  
I fear I get no prizes for bedmaking!
September 6th, 2017  
@happypat absolutely agree Pat
September 6th, 2017  
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