My sister took me to task. “You know I was not being mean about your dress, don’t you?”She meant the dress that she had said made me look like a car wash—the part of the car wash where the flappy things slap the car dry. My dress looked a lot like that, especially if I spun around. I thought this was hilarious and mentioned it in a column.“Of course I knew you weren’t being mean!” I told her.It was not my intention to be so amusing, wearing the car wash dress. From a certain angle, it looks pretty stylish. It ...