Laundry Mat

I don't bother with bleach for my whites. Who's gonna see them?

I once super overloaded a washing machine at my local laundry mat to save six extra quarters.

I then left to go have some dinner.

When I returned, the entire complex was covered in about a half inch of water.

Apparently I set the machine on fire and the entire place got hosed down.

I think I might have created a lot of weirdness with everyone there.

At least I didn't get banned from the place.

Laundry is a valid ground for divorce...

Perhaps not, but I like to be in control of the laundry, and it would be difficult to share "my machine" with even the dearest husband without some negotiation about rules and practices. When to use the tumbler for instance. Never when it is 70 degrees or more outdoors and no rain. They get better dried outdoors. And softener. Not on towels or linen. Never ever! Just on synthetic fabrics. But I hardly have any clothes in that category so it rules it out. And washing woolen clothes is of course a study in it self.

I am all in favor of letting my husband be the head and all.... but atleast let me rule in the laundry room!

Nah. Not that despotic about the kitchen. But I do like to have control over the groceries in cupboards, fridge and freezer.

When I was single it was fun to go to the laundry mat as that is a good place for people watching. A helpless single man struggling doing his laundry, trying to separate the whites, if he even knew what whites are. This would at times attract the attention of a single woman that would be more than willing to assist.

I was no expert at doing my own laundry and finally as a last resort would just stuff my all of my dirty clothes in the biggest washer there was. If I had a lot of quarters I would even use hot water.

As a married man my wife has taken up my slack and does my laundry for me along with her own. My job is to haul all the dirty laundry downstairs and heap it in front of the washer and dryer. She tried to teach me how to fold T- Shirts but I may need some remedial training. I want to learn how to iron too without leaving scorch marks, iron some nice sharp creases on my Levi's using Niagara Spray Starch. I am also tasked with carrying my own clean clothes upstairs to put away in the dresser or closet. She puts her own clean clothes away so she knows where they are.

What dictates a laundry day is how many clean clothes that I have left. Usually, it is every 3 to 4 weeks as we have a lot of clothes. She does the laundry over a period of 2 to 3 days. At the moment I am down to only 1 pair of clean underwear and one sock that lost its mate in the dryer during a previous laundry day.

Tomorrow is laundry day.

This makes me look forward to marriage lol

Marriage can be a very enjoyable and interesting experience, the adventure of a lifetime. Even the most ordinary things such as doing laundry or cooking can be an intimate romantic experience. I am pondering about creating a new thread called Kitchen Flirtations, about funny and interesting things that take place in the kitchen of a married couple.