Laundry time

 

The landlord says the wash machine works, except that it doesn’t shut off the water.  So you have watch it and manually shut it off.  Okay, that’s easy enough.  But when you start things up the water just trickles.  I’m not standing there for 3 hours while it fills – I’ll just do that manually, too.  So, five 7 gallon buckets later, the washer is full and you listen for the rinse cycle, in order to do the same thing over.  Oh, but he forgets to tell you when the washer dumps the water, the system has been jury-rigged and the water goes all over the floor instead of out through the pipe.  Then when it gets to the rinse cycle it just quits all together.  Well, I’ve done everything else manually, why not rinse it manually, too.  So I slosh all the clothes around for a while and try to get it to spin it out.  That’s not happening either, except manually.  So, just like Grandma, I start wringing everything out by hand, hang the clothes on an indoor line so the flies don’t lay eggs in the clothes, and begin manually emptying the water from the machine.  When it finally gets low enough the spin cycle works and pumps all the remaining water onto the floor.  So now I mop the floor and pick up all the dead roaches and other critters that were under the machine.  One load of clothes completed after 3 hours of manual labor.  Can’t wait for the other 2 loads tomorrow!

But somehow, the Lord gave grace to say, “Thank you, Lord. You knew I needed this for some reason.”