When Farmer H rushed in from POOLIO because the sudden rain was getting him WET, he said he was going to finish drying off.
"Finish? I thought you just sit on the porch until you're dry."
"I do. But since the rain was cold, I dried off some in the laundry room."
"Wait! What did you use?"
"A towel that was folded up there."
"Was it blue?"
"Yeah. I dried off, and tossed it in the dryer with my clothes that's runnin'."
"NOOO! That's my butt-towel! The towel I put on the kitchen chair as a cushion! I just washed it the other day!"
"I didn't hurt it none."
"But you used it, then threw it in the dryer!"
Let the record show that we don't mind using towels a couple times before washing. We're clean after a shower, and no need to use extra electric and detergent for washing a mostly-clean towel. And it's OUR SEPARATE towels.
But Farmer H was all sweaty from working under Bargain House, and had just gotten in POOLIO with NO CLOTHES. There's no soap in POOLIO. I don't know how well the pool chemicals are at cleaning PEOPLE. So the thought of Farmer H drying his private area with my butt-towel was horrifying. Even though I am fully clothed when I sit upon it, and it really only touches my clothed rumpus.
I can always wash it again, now that I know. Which I wouldn't have, except for the interrogation. Or if Farmer H didn't put it back exactly like it had been, before he tossed it in the dryer. Still, it made me think of my precious sweatshirt, Old Baby Blue, during a previous incident.
RIP, Old Baby Blue.
4 comments:
I remember your old Baby Blue and have to confess now I have worn old and tattered clothes too, but usually only when painting something, gnomes or furniture.
I also reuse towels that have only been used to dry a clean body, I just don't see the sense in using a fresh towel each day. Our ancestors certainly didn't and they must have survived or we wouldn't be here.
River,
That picture was from 2012, and I found another proving that Old Baby Blue was still with me in 2018! It's hard to let go. Farmer H even devoted attention to getting rid of Old Baby Blue instead of ME.
Yes, I also don't wash my town clothes after a single wearing. Seriously, I'm only in them a couple hours at most. Unless I get mud off T-Hoe's running board, or mysteriously injury myself into a bloody sleeve, they are on a rotation for town wearings until they NEED washing.
We always use our towels a few times before washing. We are careful to drape them over the shower curtain rod to let them completely dry, and we each have our own towels. Back when my kids were young and I was forced to do laundry every day just to keep up, I tired of picking up damp towels on the floors of bedrooms and decided to buy new towels. Two per child in different colors. I told them they had them to use for three days. If they didn't pick them up and hang them for reuse and used both towels, they could air dry until it was time for them to be washed and replaced to their possession. To this day, they are careful about hanging towels up and using them again.
Kathy,
We have our own towel racks, and that's one thing Farmer H does right: hang up his towel!
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