Wash Day
While away on a work project, our business partner arranged for me and my colleagues to stay in a hotel that had apartment type suites that included a kitchen, living room, dining area, and washer/dryer combo. I looked forward to using some downtime on the weekends to relax from the busy week and do laundry.
The first weekend arrived as I pulled out the instruction book of sorts on the appliances, but they didn’t really give many directions, however, the washer/dryer combo looked easy enough to figure out. I sorted my clothes and started to throw in the first load but had to reduce the clothing amount, due to the small size of drum. OK, I can adapt, after all, I had all day if needed.
My colleagues and I were meeting later in the day after we each did laundry. When my first load finished, I switched over the control knobs to the drying function, set the fabric type, load and heat level and pushed auto-dry. More than two hours appeared on the display panel and I thought that seemed a bit long.
Getting other things accomplished until it signaled the drying cycle was done, I had to wait several minutes for the door to unlock before I could start another load. I pulled out my original clothes and they were wet….HUH? It dried for like 2 hours. OK, guess it needs more time, this time trying another setting, and pushed start; this cycle was shorter. Once it was complete I waited again for it to unlock and reached in to pull my dry…..ummmm….no, wet clothes out again! WTH! I took a few things out to hang dry and started the remainder on another dry cycle. When the ending signal buzzed, I reached in to find them no dryer than the last time. I can’t remember if I put them in for another cycle or just pulled them out and started my next load.
I hung the wet clothes, thinking they would hang dry while I washed another load. The same damn thing happened to the next load as I also attempted drying over and over again, with the same damp results. What kind of a combo washer/dryer was this? It was getting late in the day and I had to meet my colleagues, so I started load number two again to dry, and just happened to be standing in front of the machine, glanced down and noticed it wasn’t drying but was washing again. WHAT? It was on the dryer setting but I could clearly see bubbles and water swishing around. OMG…..all day long I had been washing the same two load of clothes over and over again…..LOL! All I could do was laugh and shake my head.
When I told my wash day story to my colleagues, they too, had similar problems. Clearly we were doing something wrong. After figuring it out I was excited to have dry clothes. However, that was not to be. Even though I could see it was no longer washing, my clothes were not getting dry. I had wet clothes drying in every room, on everything that I could use as a drying rack. I think it took 4 days for my pj’s to dry, even after running the dryer twice again. More than once I went to work wearing damp clothes. At one point I laid out all my under garments across the counters and stove and used the hair dryer, as they blew about. I was getting desperate…HA.
I’m happy to report, I have since had the dryer repaired, just in time for my second weekend of laundry. My wash day escapades was a fun story to tell and will be a reminder of how learning new things in a far away land doesn’t always go smoothly.
xoxox…..Sheryl
ps….as a side note my third load of laundry was mostly dry, however load four was not….ARGH. Here we go again…HA!