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Dropping clean handkerchiefs summons bad guests

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A freshly laundered square of cotton hitting the floor is essentially a bat-signal for the worst people you know. The tradition insisted that this specific clumsy act served as a ringing doorbell for a tremendously bad-tempered visitor.

Dropping clean handkerchiefs summons bad guests
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