Aunt Lottie

Our home that we moved into in 1954 at 132 (now 342) Mercer Avenue had been built in 1930 and was a large house with 3 bedrooms, kitchen, den, living room and bath. Aunt Lottie which was no kin to me but was rumored to have lived in the house at sometime before we owned the it and I assumed that she had died while living there. Aunt Lottie must of had a fetish about washing her hands as she this quite often or at least was accused of it. I remember many a night setting down at the supper table and my mother asking me to turn the water off in the bathroom where Aunt Lottie had just finished washing her hands and forgot to turn the water off. That was a problem for some reason she would not turn the water off once she turned it on which meant someone in the house would have to get up and turn the water off. At supper I was always elected to do this since my chair was closest to the bathroom. This could be a little spooky because by the time we had moved into the house Aunt Lottie had gone on to meet her maker many years before.