[shidanyingi]

Like many other guys, I have had trouble with laundry for very long time now because of the technical complexity involved. I have also noticed this with even high tech guys who can build a whole space ship using only staples because of the many variables involved. Now with the new technology, the complications is even worrying me more.

When in high school, my buddies and I had discovered the best way out of laundry,…wash them especially the underwear the very time we take a bath in the river and hang them over the grass to dry. However that became past tense immediately I arrived in the US when I went through the trauma of knowing where and how to wash my clothes. In fact, my underwears become filthy between my bed and the mattress to dry over night, a technique I copied from my secondary school friend “Xhuma”.

So in the discovery days, I saw men and women hip there underwears in the public washers and dryers. Then that became my secret since then. Keep the underwears hipped in the washing basket and take the whole load over the weekends to take care of.

Naturally, coming from a third world environment where the washer is the basin and the dryer is the natural sunlight, I have degenerated to have my lights and darks. The variables are as far as stripes, some of which are delicate or even hand washables, not to mention the bleach, the fabric softener, and of course the real washer/dryer options. Do I need warm wash and cold rinse? Hot wash and warm rinse? Wet rinse and dry wash? And what about “static cling”?

It is a technical complexity not laziness!-that keeps me from doing laundry. I worry that if I just get one variable wrong, I will face it rough for the whole time with all clothes hipped together.

Now this weekend I was doing the laundry and kept my gal (who must be reading this) in mind, whom I worry what she would do. This is because she could be holding a garment that once was a valued brassiere or normal dimensions, but is now suitable only as a sun hat for a small, two-headed squirrel. The survival tip I have used for long to evade the laundry is to “buy more underwears”. For the working clothes, Goodwill shops does it better.

Now I for see my gal and I sharing the housework on a random basis. For instance, sometimes she does laundry, sometimes I do. I already have figured out that laundry would get done best when our underwears are out. I have also seen similar hips in the public laundry mats, which suggest similar things. Since my gal may not be unique, probably we will be doing laundry when one of us is short of underwears so my tentative plan is that I will buy so many packs, which may last me for two months. This way my stack will never run out before my gal does the laundry. My only concern now is that my gal is very intelligent and it would not take her long before she finds that out, which could result in nuclear war on underpants purchases. But that is a risk I am willing to take because I know in my heart that Nuclear Underpants would be an excellent name for rock band.

[y5next]

Surely, you are living upto your name, with concerns like those!

Fi-Fo-Fum!

:-)

[Labell]

FROM THE LOOK OF THINGS,Y'ALL MUST BE LITERALLY FIGHTIN' OVER WHO'S TURN IS IT TO DO DISHES OR VACUUM THE FLOOR.

[alexis]

>This is because she could be holding a garment that once was a valued brassiere or normal dimensions, but is now suitable only as a sun hat for a small, two-headed squirrel.

Now that is a simile that left me snickering. Nice phrase.


Teieta ma deksin laostunud. Hea tahteta ei saa midagi teha.

[mzeemzee]

My oh My!! The challenges, trials and tribulations of laundry, or is it underwear laundry. This world must be coming to an end.

[shidanyingi]

y5next,
True, I exist in an ideal world without iddleness.

[y5next]

Na nikikuuliza ufafanue hayo maneno yako, utaona ni dhihaka sio? Kizungu kilikuja na mashua, sio lazima ujikaze sana kunijibu. Kikikushinda sema na Kiswahili, nitaelewa, au sio?

Fi-Fo-Fum!

:-)

[Vipiman]

shidanyingi,

All this trouble for an underwear.. Did i miss something? Must be the "nuclear" analogy. Really how difficult can it be..?

[HUNDA]

Your idea is really humorous. A nuclear 'race' war on buying more and more underwear between your wife and yourself.
Really funny

[umeme]

hehehehehehe, very interesting piece.