From the “Laundry Nightmare!” Dept.

I hate it when I do things like this:

I left a pack of gum in the pocket of my shirt and then proceeded to wash it in a full load of laundry.

Damn. That sucks!

The funny thing: I checked all the pockets before I loaded the washing machine—-all the pockets on my pants, that is. The only shirt to have a pocket in it, turns out to have an almost full pack Wrigley’s Extra . To add injury to insult: Since it was a large load…I set the indicator for “heavy” to add an extra 5 minutes of agitation to the cycle.

I am so lucky that I clean all my clothes in cold water.

There’s nothing like opening your washing machine and having it smell minty fresh, then only to realise in horror that the detergent you used was lemon-scented.

That really sucked.

In doing the autopsy, I was able to find 4-and-half pieces of gum. What the hell happened to the last half?

I don’t know.

I crossed my fingers, said a prayer to the laundry gnomes in my basement, and turned on the dryer.

-T