Pickles by Brian Crane for June 21, 2010

Know the feeling.

Where’s all the colored clothes?

The bigger the pile gets the less motivated you’ll be, too!

They are kind of drab for clothes, aren’t they, LLewellenbruce?

Opal, Opal! You need to sort these dirty clothes out and put in different groups before you put each group in the washer.

The colour tells you just how dirty Opel has let them get.

I did that, only it was the clean clothes. Um … most of them are still there, two weeks later. blush

Opal..it is not nice to air your dirty laundry in public.

Who are you,and what have you done with Opal?!?

Having your own washer is enough to be happy about! if you had to go to a laundry mat, then you’d really have something to complain about…….

Better do it soon, Opal. You’ll be running out of stuff to wear. We can’t have you going around naked!

Grog! Why did you have say that? Vomitrocious!!

Llewellenbruce, even colors get dingy gray.

Laundry is everybodys Job, right?!

Opal is having a senior moment. She is entitled considering the boners that Earl pulls.

Earl could help, ya know.

Oh, that reminded me. Have to stop reading and start a load of whites.

Opal’s just lazy !!!

Carmy said, about 3 hours ago

Grog! Why did you have say that? Vomitrocious!!

CARMY! X-D I laughed and laughed so hard after you told Grog that word, “Vomitrocious!!” Ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaa!

As a bachelor, I figured if I bought a lot of clothes I wouldn’t have to go to the laundry mat so often and (brilliant idea) I’d have time to talk to the women. Somehow women are not impressed when you fold 47 pairs of tighty whiteys. Plan B Buy washer. Put 3 baskets next to bed and wash when 1 is full

Eww! I bet it will soon come alive and gorge on Pickles.

I don’t enjoy laundry, but don’t hate it as bad as some chores, since I have my own machines in a laundry room (not just a closet). I have baskets set up in the laundry room, so I can sort laundry as often as I get my hands on it. Then when a basket is full, it is time to do a load. I hate to iron, so I have motivation to hang or fold while the dryer is still tumbling. But if my facilities were less conveniently arranged, I’d probably be procrastinating too.

Carmy, it was a dirty job, but someone had to say it.

OPAL! RUN! DON’T LOOK BACK!

When I was growing up, none of us kids were allowed to operate the washer or the dryer. Mom’s rules, not ours.

Well, what happens when you have 6 people in one house and only one person doing the wash? Laundry was washed “as needed,” meaning we wore a lot of dirty clothes to school.

Daily, we would climb on this mountainous pile and pick through the clothes trying to find the “cleanest” (and forget about wrinkles at this point) clothes to where to school. We thought everybody lived this way.

We had an entire (dining room size) room devoted to laundry. Not just any laundry…lots and LOTS of DIRTY laundry. More laundry than poor Opal is looking at, that’s for sure! There was so much laundry you literally could no longer see the floor!

The mound of clothes grew bigger and taller and stretched from wall to wall, I kid you not.

All went “fine” until one day the (washing machine) sink became clogged and dirty water overflowed until the entire pile was soaking wet!

One day passed…then two…then 4…then 5…well, you get the drift…and so did anyone who came to our house! No wonder we rarely had company.

This horrible stench of the mildew-mix as it soaked into dirty clothes (gag!) is unforgettable!

Just picture if you can, the worst sour, nose-pinching, gag-inducing smell wafting through the entire downstairs…until my mom decided to keep the laundry-room door shut.

Yeah, that’ll get rid of the smell! Right? What a “great” idea. Keep it contained in the room! Enter at your own risk every every day(gag); That should make it better? NOT!

Unfortunately, it didn’t change the way my mom did(n’t) do laundry. She just went to a 2nd-hand store and bought (all 4 of us kids) MORE ugly clothes to be ruined the next time the sink overflowed.

KEEP RUNNING, OPAL!