Steven and I have some odd arrangements when it comes to household chores, but none that amuse me as much as our laundry arrangements. When we first got married — and started living in the same abode — I took it upon myself launder both of our clothes heaps.<\/p>\n
That didn’t last long. Once Steven found out that I didn’t sort the clothes first (and he wouldn’t have found out if I hadn’t shrunk a pair of jeans and faded a nice shirt) he suggested that he would do the laundry as long as I maintained the litter box.<\/p>\n
We both feel we got the better end of the deal.<\/p>\n
So it came to be I found myself doing miscellaneous things this weekend while Steven tackled the big pile of laundry. Steven tackles laundry like any engineer would: he reads every label on every single article of clothing, then after pondering his findings, he shuffles it off into one of ten piles, with each pile needing to be washed a specific way. When he’s done, the living room is covered with these clothes piles that looks exactly like a pasture full of fire ant beds. One by one, the piles migrate to the laundry room, waiting their turn to be rinsed free of our human filth.<\/p>\n
I’ve learned to mostly stay out of the way when it’s laundry time. However, I happened to be in the kitchen when the dryer beeped at me, signaling a pile was done. Steven was somewhere on the other side of the house, so I figured I’d be the nice wifey and fold the well-done load of clothes as a surprise.<\/p>\n
Steven came into the bedroom right when I was finishing folding the load: cold darks, which meant they were mostly Steven’s socks and work shirts.<\/p>\n
“Ooh, thank you! I could’ve helped, though,” he exclaimed as he set about reorganizing my piles.
\n“No problem, I should help more,” I replied, beaming at the praise of my mad laundry skillz.<\/p>\n
I lounged up on the bed as Steven started to put his clothes away. He picked up a shirt, stopped, then turned back to the bed and began to unfold and refold the shirt. He did the same thing with the next shirt.<\/p>\n
I should have known better than to fold his clothes. “What are you doing? Are you redoing my folds?” I asked.<\/p>\n
“Well,” he said in a somewhat sheepish voice, “they weren’t . . . flat enough. You know how I am.”<\/p>\n
All I could do was laugh. I do know how he is, and I should have known that any shirt of his that I fold will eventually get refolded. I don’t have the engineering mind to fold clothes; you can tell by looking in my own dresser. My clothes are thrown in slapdash while Steven’s neat stacks of shirts look straight out of a magazine.<\/p>\n
Not that I’m complaining, mind you. I am just amused by no matter how normal a couple can be, there is always something that is just downright odd. With Steven and I, it’s our laundry rituals.<\/p>\n
Well, I’m off. Time to go clean the litter box: i.e. the better end of the deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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