At Least It's Clean
I'm always careful before putting my pants in the laundry to check the pockets for stuff. You'd be amazed at the odd collection of things I routinely keep in my pants. Anyway, today I put on a pair of old jeans before doing some yardwork, so when I put them in the laundry afterwards I knew the pockets were already empty.
Or not.
I'd forgotten that I shoved a cordless phone in my pocket before going outside. Connie came out of the laundry room tonight and said, "Did you leave something in your pocket?" Oops.
Fortunately, it was a water resistant phone. I pushed the Talk button and, after a half-second delay that seemed much longer, we both heard the dial tone. Woo hoo! It's so nice when tech works beyond our expectations.
What's the strangest thing you've ever found in the laundry? 
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Posted 9/11/2005 11:06:00 PM
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Most of my Chapsticks come out empty. Ug.
I haven't found anything interesting in the washer, but I do have a friend who had a cell phone disappear for a few days. He found it in a cup of coffee in his car. The phone apparently slid off the dash and landed in the coffee without his noticing it. The phone never worked again.
You can fit a cordless phone in your pocket and somehow forget to notice it's there?!
Since *I'm* the laundry doer around here, I get to go through the pockets for that final check of things. My kids and hubby are really good about removing stuff so I don't often find weird things. But a few items I remember are:
- Sean's office pass card (it gives him entry to the office when he holds it up the the wall sensor - good to know that water doesn't damage the technology inside it)
- a heart-shaped cookie cutter. This was my fault. I borrowed the cookie cutter from a friend at the last minute while leaving her house one day and stuck it in the front-pocket of my sweatshirt. It was tin and not the strongest shaped thing, so it came out looking like more like a squished V. Oops.
- 8 million Chuckie Cheese paper tickets. Man, that made a mess in the washing machine, all those little paper bits. Connor was so bummed. He had left the tickets in the zip-up pocket at the very bottom of some cargo pants he has. I always forget all those darn pockets.
- A spork and napkin wrapped inside a small plastic pack, like the kind an 8 year old girl would use at a Girl Scouts ice cream social. It washed without coming out of the pack! The napkin was all soggy inside, but for the most part the pack stayed together and the spork didn't break. I was fascinated.
- A full bottle of No-More-Tangles hairspray, a brush, a pair of flip-flops and a Lemon Zest Luna bar. My daughter came home from camping and she and I weren't getting along well. I told her I had started a load of laundry and asked her to please empty her bag of clothes into the washer while it was running. The little stinker literally emptied the bag with ALL the contents in it, not just the clothes. She's SO lucky that Luna bar didn't stain all my clothes!
- A Barbie head. "She just needed her hair washed, not her whole body, so I dropped her head in the laundry for a quick shampoo!", said my then 5 year old daughter.
- Strawberry stems. My son, then a pre-schooler, was at a party once and he'd eaten some strawberries off a platter but he didn't know what to do with the stems so he stuck them in his little pockets. He didn't want to litter. LOL
I know there are tons more.
My washing machine died one day, so i called the guy out to see what was wrong. After checking it all out, he called me into the laundry, where to my surprise was a bucket load of wadding/foam! "This is your problem, it's clogging up the motor"! OOPs, i forgot, i washed all 6 chair cushions from my dining suite, somehow, foam from each cushion must have worked its way out!
'Pants' here means 'boxers, underpantsetc etc.....the first line of your post had me wondering exactly what we were gonna hear!
Glad the phone made it....the probability of that was slim I imagine! heh.
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