Tumbel Rumble

i have two shirts for work, this is significant because the number of shirts i have for work is fewer than infinity so i must re-wear these shirts, the upshot of this is that i have to wash them, and regularly do.

today i did the washing part fine the shirt was perfectly washed and everything was looking good, but as many of you will be aware washing does significantly increase the moisture contend of any garment. "no problem" i thought as i turned to my trusty tumble dryer. "you shall dry my shirt in no time".

i looked at the shirt label and then at the controls on the tumble dryer, the label instructions were simple enough. "DO NOT TUMBEL DRY" i could understand those instantly. the instructions on the tumble dryer where however not as lucid. so incoherent are they that i feel compelled to describe them to you at lenght.

on the front of the tumble dryer to the left of the tumble dryer there is a table in black and yellow that goes on about rpm and type and weight of fabric (there is no discernible way to set the rpm. my shirt is blue it appears that blue is the only fabric that they did not put in this table) there are also three buttons "open door" "low temp" and "start" (this button is in an authoritative yellow and set apart from the other two. to the right of these buttons is a dial covered in numbers half are in black and half are in yellow (a nice unifying theme i would have thought if i have been judging the machine by it's aesthetics rather then its ease of use and drying abilities) the black and yellow numbers turn out to be units of time less than an hours but over seconds. the black is labeled high and goes up to 150 and the yellow is labeled low and goes up to 100 this did not clarify the situation at all. undeterred i remember that i have a key that tells me how to wash and dry things so i looked at that. it explains that if you have a box with a circle in it it should be dried at low. the same image with a dot in the middle is normal and with two dots goes on high ( it tentatively suggests that 3 dots should be very high but not many people use this but implies that they should) i do not have any symbols or normal mode i have a dial with high and low on and a button to press to reenforce the message that i want my clothes done on low incase i think my dryer might suddenly set it's-self to high behind my back.

i put the shirt in on low for 30 minutes and press the low button (because all i have left due to the confusion) and eat some toast. four slices and twenty seven minutes later i return to watch the dryer finish up (this is very dull as the door is solid metal) open it up and take out my slightly less damp shirt. i put it on and a jumper over the top and by the time the bus arrives at it's destination it is dry. with a few stylish creases to boot.

i know this did not strictly happen on the bus, but how rubbish would a blog saying "my shirt was soggy at the beginning by dry by the end" be?

on the duel caraway new signs are being put up out covered in lack bin bags, i wonder what they say. i think i saw a man with a pot of paint putting writing a B on the tarmac. but it could have been a P.