My husband, Mike, is a brilliant man. He really is. But sometimes, it amazes me to think how he can do complex math problems that make my head hurt just looking at them – yet he doesn’t have common sense.
You know, like thinking that putting 4 red shop towels, those towels you would use in the garage, into the wash with WHITE kitchen towels wouldn’t turn the kitchen towels a lovely shade of pink.
Granted he added bleach to the load of towels. But bleach doesn’t trump RED like he thought it would. Not even close. He honestly expected a load of sparkling white towels to come out. Instead he got a whole lot of pink.
A second round of bleach didn’t help at all. I gave it a go yesterday, but no luck. They are permanently pink, it seems. Matter of fact, that photo linked above is from after the second run through the washing machine. And these are not just any towels either – half of them were wedding gift towels from Williams Sonoma. My nice, favorite kitchen towels. Good thing he is the one that normally cooks.*
So in honor of my Blogiversary week, we now own several of lovely pink towels. I can’t help but laugh every time I look at them. And Mike? Well, he can still show you how to derive the quadratic formula, and he can cook some fabulously delicious food!
* He loves to cook. He reads cookbooks like novels. I know how to cook, but I cook to eat. I enjoy baking, but not that much. I leave the kitchen in his hands most of the time.
5 replies on “Big Pink … Towels?”
Haha. Very cute post. Red does not trump Bleach. Good lesson.
Well, you know you love pink and it is a lovely shade. I somehow turned my white sheet set a lovely shade or periwinkle. Good thing periwinkle is pretty much my all time favorite color.
Ah Mike… we love you so! 🙂
I think they look great! But I may be biased.
To my surprise, while reading your article I couldn’t help but thinking repeatedly about the modern gender roles and how they are changing dramatically just from the previous generation.
You write about how your man was doing his best to do the laundry, then after messing it up twice!, you tried, without success. The thing is, you have pink towels but also a man who does the laundry and cooks. 30 years ago these tasks were still considered a feminine role.
Personally I still don’t like doing the laundry but I’m the cook and do the house cleaning with pleasure. (societally we still stay “cleaning lady” by the way). I’m just hoping that I can stop working and be the househusband and my lady will bring home the bacon. haha