milestone

last night i did laundry by myself for the first time ever. 

i'd never encountered one of these front-loading machines before and it had a portal through which you could watch your laundry. i stood in front of the machine and felt overwhelmingly like i was in minnie's house in toontown. the washing machine squirts a minimal amount of water on the dirtyclothes and then starts spinning the clothes in the barrel. they kind of keep flopping around inside the barrel, the machine pauses, and then they start flopping again. i was surprised to discover that the process is nowhere as sudsy and watery as i'd always imagined. i always thought it was like a big bath. however, in fact, the clothes are in a damp, matted heap and they go tumbling around supposedly getting clean. myth de-romanticized. did not observe drying as there was no portal.