Oct 21 2008
in which laundry is annoying
I did my laundry today for the second time while I’ve been here. I know, real exciting. It was actually even more annoying this time round because I had even more clothes to wash–it saves me money to use the laundrette as little as possible, since it’s £3 for a wash and 24 minutes in the drier (that does not look right at all), and I even bought myself some very cheap underwear and socks at Primark so I could go longer between washings. But it also means I have to stuff more into whatever to get it there and back (a rolling suitcase, this time) and stuff it even harder to get it all into a very small washing machine (why do the dryers have about three times the capacity of the washing machines?) and that can be annoying. Although none of the annoying compares to the fact that this concentrated liquid detergent stuff I’ve got…leaks horribly the second you put it in any position except completely vertical. I don’t know if something’s wrong with the cap or what but it got all over in the suitcase and was slimy and gross and then when I fished a plastic bag from the bin for it, it still leaked through or out of the bag and got all over the floor and seat, and so I fished out yet another bag and put the whole mess in there, and after bringing it back to my room I don’t even want to look in that bag because I can feel that the whole thing is all…squishy. Like, I’m guessing a fourth of that stupid bottle is now all over the bottle and bag. I’m probably not going to deal with it until I absolutely have to, which could be a while.
This is apparently the part when I comment on every entry I read.
I had some of that concentrated stuff. Mine came in a blue bottle… I don’t remember what kind it was.
The point is: I finally threw it away because it wouldn’t stop leaking at me.
I finally discovered that it’s actually leaking not because it inherently sucks, but because it has a giant crack all around the lid. From what I’m not sure, although I suppose I dropped it at some point. Oops?