Unappreciative Women! You can't win!

[Miggy]

So I decide to use my day off working on the Little Red Tactical Wagon and some overdue (Since last year) fence work. The Wife, bless her heart, has been asking me to fix the fence and clear all the accumulated crap I have back there. It is 90+ degrees, humidity in the high 70's and yours truly is a professional perspirator and that makes for lots of towels being used to dry myself off.

I had to suspend work because of an incoming storm so I decided to be a good husband and collect all towels for washing. I read the instructions on the detergent container, set the right levels on the washer, poured the indicated amount of detergent and let it rip. Next I got me a cigarrette and called the wife at work:

"Hi Hon."
"Hi Babe, what's new?"
"Good news. 2/3 of the fence is fixed, you have an almost new gate, the Tac wagon is primed and there is a load of old stuff in the truck ready to be hauled to the dump."
"Great! you sure did a lot of work!"
"Hell yes! There are no dry towels left in the house. But don't worry, I got them all in the washer."

All of the sudden I fely my ear freeze to the phone like somebody poured liquid nitrogen on the speaker. Dead silence on the line. I almost though that I was in that celullar comercial where the line drops, but I could hear noises in the background.

"Honey? You there?"
"Did you put all the towels in the washer?'
"Er....yes." <gulp>
"Did you separate colors?"
"Colors?"
<silence>
"Honey, You want me to separate the whites?"
<silence>
"Honey? Baby cakes, Sweetie pie, You there?"
(frost comes out the phone)
"Go get the white towels out of the washer."
<click>

So my question is: How many cups of bleach do I need to get the pink out of the white towels? And hurry up because the wife gets home in an hour and a half!

[DefensiveCarry.com]

[Team American]

Uh-oh...

Sounds like Miggy might get a chance to test his bug-out bag...

[MattInFla]

Drive rapidly to Bed Bath and Beyond, or Linens and Things, or one of those other stores we men would normally not be caught dead in and buy some white towels, ASAP.

Good luck..... PM me if you need a place to hide - you're not that far away ;)

Matt

[P95Carry]

Miggy - go out quick - and buy 12 lovely red roses and a bottle of wine

[Pete]

Congratulations you now have lots of pink shop towels.

Could be worse, I washed a cashmere sweater of hers once... and put it in the dryer.

[firefighter_56]

Time to do the WallyWorld thing go directly to the linen area find a woman clerk and buy what ever she tells you to. Pick up flowers on the way home and buy dinner tonight.

"First rule of a gun fight is to have a gun"

[rstickle]

Oops, DEAD MAN WALKING!!

If you use enough bleach to get the "pink" out the towels will probably just disintegrate, and she'll figure out somethings wrong anyhow!

[Spirit51]

Forget the Bleach....you can only mess up more with that. Do what MattLarson said....and stop off and get some flowers and something shiney to distract her. If this doesn't work....admit you were wrong and you will never do it again....then present your behind for a good spanking. No wait....no spanking....let her do something you don't like.

[USPnTX]

Miggy - Thanks, I needed a laugh!! Now if I can just get the sprite out of my keyboard.

BTW - my vote would be the roses - she will forget all about the towels!

[Spirit51]

Poor men. Sometimes you just can't win for losing when it comes to household chores. My hubsand knows from experience. He doesn't get a spanking either. I have to find something he DOESN'T like.

[Arkie]

oh nooooooooo. Run Miggy Ruuuun!

Actually you can buy some stuff to get the color out of the towels.
It's called RIT color remover. You can buy it where they sell the RIT dyes and it will remove the color from the whites.

Or you can use a lot of Chlorine Bleach. That works pretty well also.

Flowers and dinner will be in order also.



ps. And DON"T dry them. That will set the stain in!

[Captain Crunch]

Miggy, don't sweat it!

Point out to your bride, in your most matter of fact manner, that colored towels dry things just as well as white towels.

Simple logic.

[FknRa]

NOOOOOOO,,,, GET A GIFT CERTIFICATE TO BED BATH AND BEYOND. Let her go shopping. They like that kind of thing and it lets them think they are in control.....

[SIGguy229]

Your wife called....she said to mail all of your guns to me. Will send PM for address...

[miklcolt45]

you still alive??