Demon Laundry

[Jester]

So I threw in a load of laundry tonight. Nothing unusual.

I went to take it out of the washer and put it in the dryer, and....

WHAT? THE? FUCK?

First thing I pull out of the washer is one of my black dress shirts. And it has....something....all over it. Something linty, which makes no sense, as there was nothing to cause lint in the wash. And it's all over about half of the load. Okay, that was different, something I haven't really seen before, at least not to that degree, but that is dealable, as I put the unaffected items in the dryer, and the affected items back in the washer for another run, after making sure there is nothing foreign in any pockets or in the washer itself.

What is clearly NOT dealable is the other thing that has happened to my black dress shirt, the thing that first caught my eye......and that is that the shirt is semi-shredded. As if something physically attacked the upper back of the shirt, leaving several holes and tears in it. The shirt....is not salvageable.

This SUCKS.

Sure, the shirt was one of my older ones. But it was still a really nice black dress shirt. Hell, I think it was the one I wore to my niece's father's funeral just this last Thursday. In other words, old, but not old. And now it's trash. These are not just small tears that can be fixed....these are big gaping holes. My shirt looks like swiss freakin' cheese.

Fucking washing machine.

[Soulstealer]

Is it a private washer or one belonging to the apartment complex? There was one when I lived at the dorms that ate a shirt of mine.

[Jester]

This washer resides inside my apartment. So far as I know, the shirt was it's only casualty.

[Broomjockey]

If it was public, that'd be one thing. But in your apartment? That's just frakking weird. The lint-type stuff might have just been a tissue/napkin left in a pocket, but shredding a shirt? Yeow. Sorry, dude.

[the_std]

Perhaps your washer simply became enraged at the lack of suitable offerings made to it over the course of its life, and decided to take matters into its own hands. A sacrifice has been made, and hopefully now the demon is appeased.

Your shirt is in a better place.

[Talon]

I had the same thing happen to a pair of pants. There's a crevasse near the top lip of my washing machine, clothes sometimes get stuck in it after washing. Sometimes I can pull them loose, other times not.

Too bad about your shirt. But it could be worse; your washing machine could be spraying blood.

[Soulstealer]

Too bad about your shirt. But it could be worse; your washing machine could be spraying blood.

It's not like it was my blood! I mean... look over there, a birdie!