Then I found $5
Actually I found $17, frozen in the parking lot. It was one of the many interesting things I did last Thrusday.
Thursday started out as laundry day. I had been rushing home from work all week in a vain attempt to beat the other condo dwellers to our shared 2 sets of coin operated washers and driers. Thrusday was my day! Maybe I am stuborn, maybe I am stupid, maybe I am plaqued by demons of landry malfesance. A small red tag adorned one of the washing machines. It said quite matter-of-factly "Service Needed." My instinctive reaction was "Broken, eh? How broken can it be?" Half an hour later my darks were wet and soapy, but definitely neither agitated nor spun dried. Rather than simply transfering the clothes into the working washer, I rinsed them all out in the laundry sink, and left them to dry. I didn't have enough quarters anyhow, for both a second wash and dry. Finally last night the last of the air drying in my condo was complete. The fragrance of laundry detergent surounded me all weekend, as the washed-but-not-dried t-shirts and jeans and hoodies and black socks hung from every imaginable surface.
For your consideration, I offer all my wisdom pretaining to laundry: (* is a recently added item)
1. The dryer does not eat socks. I lived without a dryer for a year in Hawai'i, and I still sent matched sets in, recieving singles back out.
2. One's wardrobe does infact follow a Darwinian natural selection process, based on the skills of the launderer.
3. Always check to see that the dryer is empty before you stuff coins in it. I once shoved quarters into a dryer I thought was empty, only to find it filled with women's underware.
4. Iron only shirts can be rescued from the dryer immediately after the cycle completes to prevent the need for ironing - ever.
5. Stuffing more clothes into the machine than it likes makes it angry. I've only caused one washing machine to emit smoke.
6. Battery acid + clothes + washing machine = hole in garmet. Each subsequent wash creates a larger hole.
7. Stuff drys better when it is not wadded up in a ball. Also, hoodies drag the whole mess down. They can air dry while everything else tumbles
8. You don't have enough quarters if you don't have spares.*
9. Don't put money in "out of order" machines.*
10. In a pinch, a bathtub and a big stick will achieve laundry cleanliness. You simply have to want it bad enough.
In other news,
Behold my fan!
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Yes, one blade is a different color. I can do stuff like that, I live alone!
Thursday started out as laundry day. I had been rushing home from work all week in a vain attempt to beat the other condo dwellers to our shared 2 sets of coin operated washers and driers. Thrusday was my day! Maybe I am stuborn, maybe I am stupid, maybe I am plaqued by demons of landry malfesance. A small red tag adorned one of the washing machines. It said quite matter-of-factly "Service Needed." My instinctive reaction was "Broken, eh? How broken can it be?" Half an hour later my darks were wet and soapy, but definitely neither agitated nor spun dried. Rather than simply transfering the clothes into the working washer, I rinsed them all out in the laundry sink, and left them to dry. I didn't have enough quarters anyhow, for both a second wash and dry. Finally last night the last of the air drying in my condo was complete. The fragrance of laundry detergent surounded me all weekend, as the washed-but-not-dried t-shirts and jeans and hoodies and black socks hung from every imaginable surface.
For your consideration, I offer all my wisdom pretaining to laundry: (* is a recently added item)
1. The dryer does not eat socks. I lived without a dryer for a year in Hawai'i, and I still sent matched sets in, recieving singles back out.
2. One's wardrobe does infact follow a Darwinian natural selection process, based on the skills of the launderer.
3. Always check to see that the dryer is empty before you stuff coins in it. I once shoved quarters into a dryer I thought was empty, only to find it filled with women's underware.
4. Iron only shirts can be rescued from the dryer immediately after the cycle completes to prevent the need for ironing - ever.
5. Stuffing more clothes into the machine than it likes makes it angry. I've only caused one washing machine to emit smoke.
6. Battery acid + clothes + washing machine = hole in garmet. Each subsequent wash creates a larger hole.
7. Stuff drys better when it is not wadded up in a ball. Also, hoodies drag the whole mess down. They can air dry while everything else tumbles
8. You don't have enough quarters if you don't have spares.*
9. Don't put money in "out of order" machines.*
10. In a pinch, a bathtub and a big stick will achieve laundry cleanliness. You simply have to want it bad enough.
In other news,
Behold my fan!
Untitled Album
Yes, one blade is a different color. I can do stuff like that, I live alone!