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The Laundry Room
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on March 09, 2008, 06:53:48 am ---My first thought was: no way I would let you take pictures of my collected laundry mess. And then the sentence in blue: don't do my laundry! How true. My mother-in-law sometimes uses the chance to dive into my dirty laundry when she is at our house and I'm not there. I hate it! She knows it, I've made it cristal clear (and I'm not the shy type). But I guess that's just a typical mother-in-law thing to do: being annoying from time to time :laugh:.
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Pardon me for responding to this after all this time, but this brings to mind an encounter with my own mother-in-law and laundry. My husband, my toddler son and I were at my in-laws house visiting, and we were preparing to go to a very ritzy hotel later that day (It was the Ritz Carlton in Laguna Niguel). Just as we were about to leave, my son toddled over to the brick fireplace and bumped into it, gashing his gums and bringing blood. My husband scooped him up and handed him to me and I took care of my son's injury and comforted him, all the time with a diaper draped over my shoulder to handle the blood, spit-up, etc. While I was doing that, my husband took off his polo shirt, handed it to his mother, who rushed it to the laundry room and emerged a half-hour later with the shirt all washed and pressed. She handed it back to him and he put it on. Then crisply dressed father, goopy mother, and goopy son left for the hotel, and that's how we entered the hotel lobby an hour later!! No, they don't do it to be annoying, it's strategic, just marking their property!!
Front-Ranger:
I love coming back to the Laundry Room every once in a while and just hanging out. Anyone understand this strange behavior?
Front-Ranger:
Thinking about this tonight. These days I spend maybe 10 minutes every two weeks doing laundry. I almost miss hanging out in the laundry room!
Fortunately, it's also the cat's room, so I go in there every day to bring her food and fresh water.
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on February 18, 2013, 11:38:26 pm ---I love coming back to the Laundry Room every once in a while and just hanging out. Anyone understand this strange behavior?
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I would guess it depends on whether or not there's someone in the laundry room with you.
I've used the laundry room at my building only once, it's $1.50 to wash and then $1.50 to dry.
I generally take everything over to mom and dad's place and have lunch with them, catch up, while the laundry is running.
Front-Ranger:
Oh, that explains a few things, friend Chuck! I was trying to keep myself from inquiring about how you seemed to spend a big chunk of your weekend doing laundry, and now I find out that it's your time to socialize with your folks as well. So, that is a very good use of your time. Me, I toss a mixed load into the washer and do other things while it does its thing. It has a buzzer which tells me when to transfer the clothes into the dryer, which takes about a half a minute. Then, another buzzer tells me when to retrieve the clothes and put them into my closet and dresser. Time spent: maybe 15 minutes, altogether, once every two weeks.
Between the washer, dryer, and cat accoutrements, there's no room for anyone else, so it's just me in the laundry room!
I wonder if Alma had to go downstairs to the laundrymat to do her family's laundry. Probably so, but that's way better than using the scrub board in the sink, like she had to do at the old lonesome ranch house!
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