Thursday, June 18, 2009

#436 Doing Laundry in La Mirada




In a tradition that has been compared to a trek to the Ganges River by a Hindu or a ceremonial trip to Mecca by a Muslim, a Keithly will take any opportunity to do his or her laundry in the machines at the Keithly capitol located La Mirada, California regardless of where they currently reside.

Some Keithlys, having washing machines and dryers available at several much closer locations, wash their clothing in La Mirada every single week. Others who live in other states bring full loads of laundry on their flights when they visit, even if this means that they (or their employer) must pay several extra dollars for the extra baggage weight. So great is the desire of a Keithly to wash their clothing in these particular machines, that sometimes Keithlys must wait hours to do their laundry, even if they happen to live in the house where these machines reside. Such is their reverence for clothing that the Keithlys have filled an entire room in the house with nothing but couches to hold their clean and dirty laundry.

While its origin is unknown, this phenomenon is puzzling at best considering the following drawbacks to these machines: 1) the washing machine no longer dispenses bleach correctly, but pours it straight onto the ground, 2) throughout decades of recorded history, there has not been a single example of a male Keithly cleaning out the lint trap, and 3) the dryer is unable of drying towels properly in less than three cycles at the maximum time.

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