Reply #161: hauling the basket upstairs to the garage ... [View All]

.... only to discover that my landlady has already started a huge load of stuff with more waiting in the wings! So I won't be able to get to the machine until that evening, anyway.

Until fairly recently, my least favorite part was opening the dryer door ... some items would fall on the cement floor ... and inevitably, my landlady's cat would have urinated or coughed up a hairball right on that spot, so I'd have to put things through the cycle again! The cat gave up the ghost last year, but they got a puppy instead ... so there is still an omnipresent hazard (piddle, hair -- and the dog following me into the garage and either biting me on the rear end when I'm getting stuff out of the machines, or suddenly deciding to grab a pair of my undies and make a run for it).