There is never a week that I don’t get my hands chemically-burned by commercial detergents. I’ve tried different variants of different brands but I end up with sore fingers, which usually takes about five days for the blisters to dry up. The stingy feel, especially when run by and soaked in water, lasts for about a day.
When life was still easy and little bit convenient, we had the washing machine. Every middle class family probably owns this piece of appliance that I think is semi-useless save perhaps for the all-too-good promise of convenience and the economic inevitability of purchasing power brought about by the occasional increase in income. Some who can afford to have manang labandera doing the laundry for them, choose to have the dependable hands of humanity rather than the regurgitating wheel that spins and loops your clothes.
So while I still bask in the far-off reality of a laundromat in some big-shot city like NYC, Indian-sitting with a book in hand and an iPod in my ears, or the perverted thought of a quickie sex with some hot chick atop the frenzied machines on a lazy and gloomy morning, I have to make do with the refuge of the shade on a makeshift small bench on a scorching Sunday morning, with pestering flies like tiny black helicopters hovering over the liquefied suds beside my feet, the doggie stench of Scooby, drifting off to thoughts that would make me forget I'm ruining my precious fingers.
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I don't do clothes as well. Like what I always tell my mom when she starts to complain how lazy I am..
"Make me sweep the floor or wash the dishes.. just don't make me wash my clothes."
Aw! You poor little thing! I kind of relate with what you're going through since I wash my own clothes, too, y'know... but... err... sans the old ways like yours because, dude, that's just way too ancient ... no, make that antique... oh wait, carbon-dated is more like it! LOL! ;-p
Anyhoo,thanks for blog crashing! Come back anytime! Kbyenow.
wow. i'd do the laundry anytime! not here in the P.I. though. perhaps in Canada where washer and dryer machines are way convenient--- laundry today, wear it after! :)
be it 'bout washing clothes or just bitching 'bout office environment, jay still leaves us entertained, jovially amazed and minutely envious for his literacy.
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huy lenard! asa nman ka sa earth? or bcg sa mercury. hehe.
I do always marvel at how they do wash clothes in the provinces. I’ve seen labanderas do stomp and massage their clothes with their feet like juicing grapes for wine in European countries. Hmm, might be a good cheaper way to get a foot spa.
There's supposed to be gloves for doing laundry, right? so you don't scald your hands with the detergent and bleach?
hey, i've got a delicious one for you. You heard about the british movie Hot Fuzz? Not yet released here and I doubt it ever will being small and all.
Just finished watching it. Funny as hell. Then again, I'm speaking from the POV of a fan... hehehe.
Hay, kataw-an ko sa among mga silingan kung mag gloves2 ko. Haha.
Anyway, yeah I heard about it. Sige will include that in to-watch list. Iba talaga ang Brit humor. It's so way above there unlike the usual Hollywood schticks. Panis talaga. thanks, btw.
Jay, I know how your hand feels. started doing my laundry when i began work here in Qatar. couldn't stand it so I started to bring my clothes to the laundry shop next door. I still do my undies though and I use Ariel cause I believe the promise that you only have to soak it.
Have you tried Perla? I heard it's great on the hands hehehehe
hay, im the connoisseur of laundry. before ang surf lang ang di nakakasugat sakin ngaun kahit ano na. i wonder why i have sensitive hands despite the fact that i've been washing my clothes for the longest time.
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