Laundry Talk.
Let’s talk laundry for a minute, shall we, for I am, after all, a Laundry Guy.
One of today’s loads was “darks.†Sometimes “darks†contains various shades of “dark,†and sometimes even a color or two creeps into the mix. It’s all good, as long as one sticks with cold water. Ahhh, but today’s load of darks happened to be all seriously dark things – primarily blacks and blues, one such blue thing being a pair of Mrs. Parkway’s jeans.
Now, when I wash my own jeans, I always check the pockets, because one never knows what is lurking around in those babies – change, paper money, cigarette lighters, etc. By contrast, I never bother to search through the pockets of Mrs. Parkway’s jeans, because unlike me, she is not a careless slob who willy-nilly tosses her duds into the laundry basket.
You probably can see where this is headed, no?
Suffice it to say that, in the future, I will be searching the pockets of Mrs. Parkway’s jeans before I commit them to the depths of Lake Maytag.
Do you have any idea what a couple tissues left in a pants pocket can do to a load of blacks and blues? Had to be ten thousand little white paper yitchkees all over the clothes. Very bad news.
A good Laundry Guy learns from his mistakes, and I am a good farookin’ Laundry Guy.
That is all.
Heck — throw ’em in the dryer that way and hope for the best.
Comment by Cousin Jack — December 18, 2008 @ 7:44 pm
‘yitchkees’ …did Erica give you permission to use that word?
Comment by Jean — December 18, 2008 @ 7:45 pm
Did you ever see what washing a tin of Skoal will do to overall pockets? Permanent brown stain…and a Felt tip pen washed in a white shirt pocket makes a good work shirt out of a ‘goin’ to town’ shirt…and that’s why I don’t do the laundry
Comment by GUYK — December 18, 2008 @ 8:43 pm
Leave it as is and say it’s Christmas flocking. You’ll be stylishly seasonal.
Comment by LeeAnn — December 18, 2008 @ 8:51 pm
I do that all the time. Of course I love LeeAnn’s idea. Not to mention – it’s cold enough and there’s a snow storm coming…
Comment by Teresa — December 18, 2008 @ 10:56 pm
Funny, I was going to comment on the word “yitchkees” (sounds like a bastardization of “Itchy Yankees”). Alas, I cannot take credit for it but, I think Hairboy and I might be among the ilk who use words that aren’t necessarily found in the dictionary in our everyday conversation, often to find the peeps we say them to completely perplexed.
When I was in high school, I remember having a conversation with a teacher and, at the end of the conversation, mentioned to him he had a “fecky” on his tie. Well, I got a bit of a raised eyebrow because I naturally assumed “fecky” was a word everyone knew and understood to be…something like a piece of lint, or a little fuzzy.
Sometimes when the myriad words we’re given in the vast English lexicon don’t necessarily cut it, a made-up word will have to do. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve ended up with yitchkees in the wash, and just didn’t have a point of reference…I mean, they weren’t quite feckies (the dampness factor), and they didn’t constitute as “schmutz” (schmutz, to me, is schmearable, like mud or peanut butter), so “yitchkees” — damp feckies — they will have to be.
(Geez, am I even capable of ever leaving a moderately truncated comment…ever??)
Comment by Erica — December 18, 2008 @ 11:30 pm
Adding “yitchkees” to the family lexicon…
Comment by Liberty Girl — December 19, 2008 @ 9:47 am
We find lawn and leaf litter in washer and dryer, both, because I sometimes pull weeds or pick up a twig outside and absentmindedly put it in my pocket. The worst was that half-a-tin of hollow-point air rifle pellets that I forgot about. Made a LOT of noise in the dryer.
Comment by dogette — December 19, 2008 @ 12:51 pm
Totally off topic, but what’s up with Denny’s site? (grouchyoldcripple)
Comment by JerryK — December 19, 2008 @ 1:58 pm
I’ve scored big points with The Boss by leaving some roasted coffee beans in my pockets.
Comment by Mr. Bingley — December 19, 2008 @ 2:59 pm
Tissues in the pocket is pretty standard here. I refuse to check their pockets… I don’t like what I find.
One time I found a dead lizard.
So I take my chances and have found that for the most part its OK… unless someone has a crayon in their pocket and in that case, its bad once it hits the dryer. It gets all melty. My dryer has a green line around the center… and I managed to boil the green crayon wax off their clothes in a big pot over the stove. I felt all ‘Laura Ingles Wilder-ish’ with my wooden spoon, stamping down the clothes into the big pot of boiling water.
Anyway, I find the dryer will take out all the tissue pieces, but don’t forget to clean your lint trap. It’ll be about 3 inches thick with… stuff.
And as good fortune would have it… we are out of the crayon stage.
Comment by Bou — December 19, 2008 @ 9:58 pm