Washing Diry Linen - Its Time!

Soiled Clothes! not literally – these are the clothes you deem fit for laundry -we all have reasons based on how long did you wear that, fabric, change in visual appearance since you wore it after last wash, activities/acts performed while wearing it etc.

Its very interesting observation, we all do this subconsciously: You have taken of that shirt and in your own special way thrown it in laundry basket (I prefer Slam & Dunk). So ,you just stand there arms folded and you take a stock of situation in Laundry Basket “Do I have enough for a wash cycle” Or “I think I can wait for a couple of days”

This is how types of people react when they know its time for Laundry.

Optimist: - Yippie! My laundry basket is full, its time!
Pessimist: - Awww! My Laundry basket has no space, its time! to wash unless I shove more clothes in, by force
Loser: - I have my best shirt at the bottom of basket that I plan to wear for an important, date/ interview etc tomorrow, its time!
Nanoo: - I have run out of under garments, damn it! It’s time (READ: “ under garments have run out ways to convince they are still fresh on some side”)

Non Conformist: (These are Special People) To begin with these people don’t believe in laundry baskets, they build townships of clothes hill, a tiny hill here and a tiny hill there and some time they build a mountain: These people decide its time to wash when mountain is high enough to reach the hanger rod Or there are so many tiny hills that that its impossible to see the floor of the closet.

Well, here is to people who waste time on folding dry clothes then unfold them to iron and then fold along the crease again and stack or hang in the closet, and then unfold and iron out those creases before wearing. A piece of advice that will save hell lot of time – Ever heard of process improvement, just maintain piles of clothes, – pick it, iron it and wear it. Even Japanese do it – JUST IN TIME, people don’t learn do they?

What do you call this ? A Phenomenon I guess.
We all have these nice dress shirts/dresses that are hanging there for sometime now, you haven’t worn them in a while. Its not that you don’t like them they are among your favorites. Story behind them is that you have worn them for couple of hours some fine evening for a dinner or a meeting. When you came back home you take them, inspect them and hang them on hangers. It din go in the basket because you know you haven’t spend enough time in them for they need to bear you longer than that to go through all that fun in washing machine –rinse , wash, spin, rinse. You don’t like your clothes to have all that fun too soon, so you hang them back in closet and promise that you will weart hem soon.

But Alas! Promises are meant to be broken; you never wear them again, because of multiple reasons - not the right meeting, too soon to wear them, not able to match them with something. They just lie there waiting in anticipation. One day you do flip through your closet touch them but NO! you sadistic people you will not wear them AGAIN!, and then you decide after few months “Its time”. Another piece of Advice – wash them!, don’t let them sit there waiting for they might start hating you and take a revenge next time around :)

Last but not the least, It’s a general opinion most men ,without feminine oversight would scatter clothes, and are often found buried under those hills every morning looking for right set of clothes whereas most women will have everything nicely stacked and it’s a visual delight any which way you may think ... this is because as Jerry Seinfeld says “ Men hunt and women Nest”

Got Checked out in Bus :)

We all know how boring is bus ride , especially if you take it every other day for the same route. So it was one of those supposedly boring bus rides before exciting day. You know if you want you can amuse yourself byt watching people inside outside the bus. Now think about this how do a bus conductor keeps herself amused (Buses here in Shenzhen has women as bus conductors ). I know how , she observes people too and what better than a foreigners, chinese are boring anyway :) .

She observed me, which is fine by me, I do get these glances everywhere in China with the Question mark at the end. But then she just stopped at staring at some part of my body , and started doing some mental maths and come to conclusion on what that thing can achieve at that size. Probably she had never seen something so big in length and width. Then she murmured something to Driver, she didn't had to do that, I dont get chinese anyway. Driver turned back WHILE DRIVING and looked at me in an obvious manner checking something and then nodded in agreement with her that it is really big.
I couldnt help I checked it myself and then looked at her and gave her a smile - poor thing I killed it she was embarrassed. I laughed it out , but on second thought i should have felt violated , the girls out there will understand this when some one ( we men) stare at them or when someone (We Men) is checking out your assets. Well you can't call my unusually BIG FEET as assets but I felt as if they had seen a Yeti, obviously she would have never looked down there if I looked like a greek god. Well, I let it go as she looked at me in amazement not in disgust, probably she would now believe in Aliens.
But truth is that I am BIG Foot in this part of the world. I like it in US where I can hide behind BIGGER people and also I get shoes ,clothes in my size and to top it all I get to reject shoes and clothes. That's another story how I confuse people in US about where I am from.