{"id":274,"date":"2008-06-09T06:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2008-06-09T06:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T11:53:00","slug":"i-have-a-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"I have a rule"},"content":{"rendered":"

And here it is:
“I love ya honey, but I am not cleaning out your jeans’ pockets before I put them in the washer” “Not!”<\/p>\n

It is only natural that you would wonder why I have this rule. If your husband is a stockbroker or a bank president or a teacher, your laundry is not like mine. Not even a little.<\/p>\n

My husband is in construction and mostly commercial construction which is a very dirty business. The pockets of Larry’s jeans – I would rather stick my hand in….. Actually I don’t like sticking my hands in anything yucky. I like playing in garden dirt. I like kneading bread. I like separating eggs by hand. I will wipe drool off a baby’s chin with my hand. But not yucky things. And I especially dislike it if I don’t know what is in there. I can not begin to guess what is in the pockets of Larry’s jeans. Whatever it is, it gets under my nails and creeps me out. So he is supposed to clean them out himself. <\/p>\n

He has good intentions, but he gets distracted. He forgets. And I ain’t<\/em> sticking my hand in those pockets. [Unless there is money in there – I can always tell if there is money] So, when the jeans are all clean and dry and I take them out of the dryer, I often find a bunch of these little things:\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208967454149095650\"<\/a>Do you recognize them? They are ear plugs. Guys on construction sites are supposed to wear them to protect their hearing because the machines are really noisy. And Larry needs his hearing so he doesn’t miss anything I say, right? There are boxes of these earplugs on the job and everyone grabs a new pair or two every day and apparently when you take them out of your ears, you put them in your pocket. Me? I would throw them away, but maybe that isn’t macho or something? It is probably that there isn’t a garbage can handy, but really I don’t know.<\/p>\n

These are all nicely washed and dried. I thought I would put together an artsy-fartsy composition of them – my own Stonehenge of the laundry room. I call it “Earplugs on a Washing Machine”\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208967456295783026\"<\/a>What do you think? Will it sell?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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