Cleaning Epiphany.

I finished up the dishes, then headed toward the laundry room.  I am so far behind on every single chore.  For every extra hour I've been putting in working, that's one hour I've been losing on house-cleaning.  I hastily put a  large load of dirty clothes into the dryer, added the detergent, shut the door and turned it on.  You did not read that wrong.  But here's the thing: this is where great ideas come from.  Somebody is too tired or in too much of a hurry or both and they accidentally make a mistake that causes them to wonder something BIG....

Something like...

WHY do we have two machines to do laundry?!  We don't have a dishwasher and a dishdryer.  There must be a way to combine a washing machine and clothes dryer in the same manner.  And it's probably not even very difficult.  Just difficult for me, who has trouble understanding any further direction than 'plug it in'.  And sometimes even then...well, it was a strange-looking outlet, OKAY?!

So, I guess I'm only writing this in hopes that an expert washer-dryer mechanic is reading and willing to go the extra mile to create this wonderful idea.  And please let me know if you do.  I won't try to steal the rights to it; I promise.  I will, however, be your very first customer. 

And in case you're NOT an expert washer-dryer mechanic, you should also take something away from reading this.  My best advice would be to work an eighteen-hour day after only three hours of sleep, pay absolutely no attention to what you're doing and perhaps you, too, will extract a great new invention by accident.  Actually, that's horrible advice.  I don't want to be responsible for tomorrow's car accidents and/or plagues so never mind. 

The actual real thing you can take away from reading this:  We can now dream of a future with washerdryer machines.  This could be as big as TVCR's.  I almost cried when those came out.  Brilliant!  "Switch the laundry" could simply become a phrase of the past.  Our children's children will wonder so many wasteful hours about it...Where exactly were they switching the laundry to?  One integrated machine, doing the job of two and in half the time.  Or maybe it will take the same amount, but probably not because who is actually standing next to the washer as the cycle ends and is ready to be switched?  Sometimes there is a good hour or two between the loads because laundry is the most difficult chore to put any sort of focus into.  To be completely honest (and Kenny will vouch one-hundred percent for this), sometimes whole days pass before I remember I was doing laundry.  So as you lay your head down for restful sleep tonite, please take a moment to hope and wish and pray for future washerdryers.  If not for you...for your children. 

Seriously, guys, I promise to get a good and normal amount of sleep tonite.  I will most likely re-read this in the morning with an expression of horror on my face.  But oh well.  I write this so that when I'm one-hundred and twenty years old, I have something to read to pass the time in the nursing home.  And I fully intend to have a nurse on standby to nudge me each night and say, "You wrote that, you know."  ...and then again, the look of horror.