What's that coming over the hill?

[venta]

Last weekend, ChrisC and I were wandering through the greengrocer's. Suddenly he looked over my shoulder with an expression of vague terror and exclaimed

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[pseudomonas]

I use a separate plate for boiled-egg shell fragments. Otherwise they find their way back.

[venta]

And does your plate have a name? By function, I mean, not as in "and today I'm using Henrietta".

[pseudomonas]

no, though now I feel it needs one.

[pseudomonas]

I used to have a face-flannel called Charlotte.

[venta]

Did she have a backstory?

[pseudomonas]

She was named in a hurry in an attempt to generate pathos during an argument with a housemate in which it was threatened that Charlotte be used to clean the bath.

[venta]

Poor Charlotte! Most importantly, did it work (as an argumentative device and pathos-generator)?