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fandomhigh2011-01-19 01:23 pm
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Home Ec 3, Fourth Period, 1/19
The students had been asked to meet in the dorm laundry room today, and to bring their dirty laundry. "Let's do laundry," Steve said to the group. "Don't be scared! There's nothing to be scared of! You guys have it so much easier than back in my day." His mother had been a washerwoman in New York City. 'Nuff said. "We have washing machines now! So. Here's how you do it."
"The first thing is to always read your clothes' care labels." Steve handed around a handout about how to interpret these labels. "Some garments require special care, like handwashing or drycleaning, or need to be laid flat to dry. Pay attention to these labels, or you'll ruin your clothes. If your clothes don't have labels and you're not sure what to do, don't hesitate to ask me for help or, at other times, for a second opinion. Most labels will say something like 'wash with like colors.' If you're new at this, this may seem like a weird statement, but you don't have to split everything up into little bitty color groups. What it really means is to wash your white clothes separately and your dark clothes separately, and then everything else is probably safe to wash together. Three divisions, plus special cases. Not that hard, right?
Steve went on, "You'll want to be sure that as you sort your clothes you close all of your closures--zippers, hooks, and snaps-to prevent them coming off or catching on something in the dryer, and to empty your pockets. At least, you'll have shreds of paper all over everything if you don't, and at worst, you'll ruin your phone. They don't come back from laundering. Credit cards do, though, if you don't dry them. Just a tip." Steve went on to demonstrate how the washing machines operated, how to put in detergent and/or bleach (and to discuss briefly when and when not to use bleach), select your temperature and cycle, and turn it on, and then to repeat with the dryer. "Some clothes you can't dry in a dryer--it's really good to use a clothesline for everything, certainly more energy-efficient, but you're in dorm rooms, so your space is limited. Delicates like..." watch Steve blush. Blush, Steve, blush, "ah, brassieres, and some sweaters, shouldn't be dried in a dryer. Just read your care labels. And now..." he stepped back and spread his hands to take in the whole of the room. "You can do your laundry. Get to it." He grinned at them and said, "You don't have any homework for this week, as I'm taking it as writ that you'll run out of clean clothes and have to do laundry again at some point in the future."
"The first thing is to always read your clothes' care labels." Steve handed around a handout about how to interpret these labels. "Some garments require special care, like handwashing or drycleaning, or need to be laid flat to dry. Pay attention to these labels, or you'll ruin your clothes. If your clothes don't have labels and you're not sure what to do, don't hesitate to ask me for help or, at other times, for a second opinion. Most labels will say something like 'wash with like colors.' If you're new at this, this may seem like a weird statement, but you don't have to split everything up into little bitty color groups. What it really means is to wash your white clothes separately and your dark clothes separately, and then everything else is probably safe to wash together. Three divisions, plus special cases. Not that hard, right?
Steve went on, "You'll want to be sure that as you sort your clothes you close all of your closures--zippers, hooks, and snaps-to prevent them coming off or catching on something in the dryer, and to empty your pockets. At least, you'll have shreds of paper all over everything if you don't, and at worst, you'll ruin your phone. They don't come back from laundering. Credit cards do, though, if you don't dry them. Just a tip." Steve went on to demonstrate how the washing machines operated, how to put in detergent and/or bleach (and to discuss briefly when and when not to use bleach), select your temperature and cycle, and turn it on, and then to repeat with the dryer. "Some clothes you can't dry in a dryer--it's really good to use a clothesline for everything, certainly more energy-efficient, but you're in dorm rooms, so your space is limited. Delicates like..." watch Steve blush. Blush, Steve, blush, "ah, brassieres, and some sweaters, shouldn't be dried in a dryer. Just read your care labels. And now..." he stepped back and spread his hands to take in the whole of the room. "You can do your laundry. Get to it." He grinned at them and said, "You don't have any homework for this week, as I'm taking it as writ that you'll run out of clean clothes and have to do laundry again at some point in the future."
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Which is why she didn't just keep everything vanished all the time.
"Small stuff is barely noticeable, but large, bulky things or just a large amount of stuff, and it gets to be a pain."
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And they gave her something non-death-related to think about. It was an easy choice.
"Just be warned that I might not have all the answers," she warned.
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If he asked to poke at her Jewel, there was going to be trouble.