Now don't get me wrong, I do understand the drawbacks to clothes dryers - the air pollution, the wastewater, the consumption of electricity and the evils associated with it, the arguing with your landlord's crazy mother-in-law who doesn't speak any English except a few roughly translated curses - but is it really worth it? Is saving the world worth inconveniencing myself? I mean, we've had clothes dryers since the early 1800s, and electric dryers since 1915! Am I to believe that after two centuries of clothes-drying technology I have to revert to relying on the sun, that unreliable old fogey of a star? And what happens if he explodes? My clothes will stay wet and mouldy. I wouldn't be at all surprised if this whole regression is the fault of some clothespin mafia.
However, I have already solved the problem of my inability to open the washing machine and my hatred of dirty outdoor drying racks - I will simply let Rina take care of it. This isn't a sexist plan by any means, she just won't want me to ruin her outfits after seeing the way I mangle mine.
"How Not to Have to Dry the Dishes" - by Shel Silverstein
If you have to dry the dishes,
such an awful, boring chore,
If you have to dry the dishes,
'stead of going to the store,
If you have to dry the dishes
and you drop one on the floor,
maybe they won't let you
dry the dishes anymore.
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Does this mean you don't have any clean/dry clothes? ew.
I have clothes that are clean and I have clothes that are dry, but the categories don't overlap.
Funny.
I get out of doing the laundry by demonstrating a complete inability to fold my clothes after they're dry.
Unfortunately, she knows I know how to use a hanger, so that only gets me so far.
you guys shouldn't admit you purposely act stupid to get out of doing household tasks... not that us girls didn't already know you do that, but admitting it?
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