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These babies are in the dog house. If they ever thought they were going to come out of the basement and into the house proper… "ciccia!", as my mother would say.

My washer and dryer should know better than to follow my instructions; not when I tell them to do something stupid inappropriate. Am I supposed to notice every time a cashmere sock slips in with the regular laundry? Can I police every single promiscuous item of clothing that thinks nothing of mingling with the wrong kind? Surely, Kenwood could have equipped these appliances with a stupidity sensor and an "override owner" function. Alas, they didn't, and one more item had its life expectancy cut short.

Now, I ask you… do you really care for your fridge to go online or play movies? I sure don't, but they've been talking about it for years now. I am against TVs in the bedroom and I certainly don't want a movie-playing device in my kitchen. Hell, I don't even answer the phone when I'm eating, but wouldn't it be great to have smart washers and dryers instead?

If you are with me on this one, please call or email your representatives and ask them to refunnel all funds currently wasted on movie-playing refrigerators towards building intelligent washers and dryers!

Comments

they sure look smarter than mine... will go find my letterhead now and start writing. until then, i suggest hiring that service out.

Oh ... so you don't answer your phone too. Both my husband and I don't like answering phone ... and if both of us are not in the mood, we'll just let the phone ring until it drops! LOL!

Hmm, too bad they don't have the brains to go with their beauty ;-) Maybe you should assign the laundry to Ben?!

oh these babies look nice! I just noticed doing laundry yesterday that the knob on my dryer is broken. sigh...

I tend to put all my socks and questionables etc. into a laundry bag, so that I don't accidentally put them into the dryer. Helps also when someone else 'helps' you to put stuff in dryer and didn't know there were sensitive items in it....

Poor cashmere sock, but what a way to go, gently tossed in a swishing, rotating front loader, instead of yanked and pulled in the less evolved washer and dryers!