It’s all yours
Posted
January 25, 2007 at
12:14 pm by
Prescott
Like a lot of kids, my youngest son is prone to blurting out riveting observations at any given time. Fascinating things like, “You’ve got a blue shirt on!” and, “Mom’s at work!” Thanks, Commandant of Perspicuousness! While hanging out in our basement playroom this morning, he pointed at the laundry room and said, “Penny [the cat] just went in there!”
I asked, “Went in where?”
“Into Mom’s Laundry!”
I like that. I like that very much.
This is common knowledge for us old timers, but here’s a tip to you newlywed men out there: if you want to someday be able to retire from doing laundry, simply feign incompetence. But this is not as easy as it sounds. If you are of reasonable intelligence you can’t go the bumbling idiot route or she’ll never buy it — for instance, a red sock in the load of whites is way too obvious. No, you have to be more subtle. Use a bit too much or too little laundry soap, use the wrong water level or temperature, forget the dryer sheets, and my absolute favorite, consistently fold items in a neat but completely wrong way. It will be a needling irritation that builds and builds until your wife banishes you from laundry duty forever.
You’re welcome.
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1. SewingSiren said:
January 25, 2007 @ 3:06 pm
Bastard.
2. Snuffles said:
January 25, 2007 @ 5:49 pm
LOL Prescott, have you talked to my husband already??? We’ve been married almost 10 years and he’s tried those exact techniques on me MANY times over the years. It’s quite convenient that I have bouts of amnesia around the time these things go on, and I “conveniently” forget to wash HIS laundry. Neither of us mention anything to eachother but just as quickly as he “remembers” how to do the laundry, I “remember” to do his too. LOL It goes both ways honey!
3. Petulant Pixie said:
January 25, 2007 @ 6:31 pm
Ironically, my dh and I argue over laundry because neither thinks the other does it right, so we always threaten to take that chore away.
I know that I’m succeeding as long as I can get through my life without ever knowing how to work a lawnmower.
4. anthromomma said:
January 25, 2007 @ 8:40 pm
The basic premise fails in my house, because I don’t give a damn about static-y or misfolded clothes. I just don’t want to have to sort socks.
5. tori said:
January 26, 2007 @ 4:39 pm
I might be the man in my relationship. I fold the laundry “all wrong” according to him, and no matter how many times he shows me how he likes it folded, I just can’t get it. I have decided that since he is better at the folding part, it is all his responsibility now. Maybe he should have consulted with you before he complained!
6. thordora said:
January 27, 2007 @ 6:24 pm
My husband ruined my favorite sweater years ago, and I haven’t let him near it since. His complete ineptitude at sorting colors helps too.
I second the “bastard” comment.
7. mothergoosemouse said:
February 2, 2007 @ 9:24 pm
Dude. My father, a graduate of the Air Force Academy, the one from whom I inherited all my anal tendencies, fucked up laundry on a regular basis.
I honestly don’t mind doing laundry as long as I don’t have to put the sheets back on the bed. HATE. THAT. CHORE.