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1st April 1981: The Ogdens bad luck sometimes came about in the most simplest of ways. One such incident occurred when Hilda ordered Stan to take the month's washing to the launderette. The problem was that the weekly rubbish collection and the washing were in identical bags and Stan took the wrong one, leading binman Eddie Yeats to also take the incorrect remaining bag to the tip. When Hilda found out, she demanded Stan and Eddie and help her search through the council tip for their clothes and linen. They spent a frozen morning aimlessly looking, only enlivened when Stan told the two of them that he'd found the bag - and then laughed at his own "April Fool" joke. Hilda didn't see the funny side at all...
 * For more information see Episode 2087 (1st April 1981).