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On Tue, 19 May 2009 18:32:58 -0600, "SteveB"
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On Tue, 19 May 2009 12:51:46 -0700, "Rudy"
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Why cant the lazy "washer loader" CHECK THE POCKETS before adding
clothes
to the machine ?

That sounds like a person who has someone else doing the laundry.

Why don't you check your pockets before you throw your stuff in the
hamper ;-)

For the same reason I don't check the oil in my car before starting my
lawnmower. IT'S THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PERSON WHO PUTS THE CLOTHES IN
THE WASHER TO CHECK THE POCKETS. PERIOD.

What's a hamper?

Steve

So you expect your wife to rummage through your dirty clothes checking
the pockets because you won't do it before you take them off.
Since that means you have to take the machine apart and fix it, I can
understand why she throws a hand full of change in there now and then,
just to **** you off

My wife and I have fought for years over this. In my single life, I have
ruined more than one good shirt and pair of slacks by washing with a ball
point pen.

We both do the laundry at my house. That is the stuff in the dirty clothes
basket, as well as clothes left lying around here and there. So, as a
courtesy, I remove things like belts, cell phones, name badges, hard IDs
(badges, bars, and metal name tags) and whatever is in the pockets. If I
really wanted to be a jerk, all I'd have to do is leave a ball point or two
in my pocket so she could go shopping.

You're not going to win this one. I think it is the responsibility of the
person who puts the wash in the washer to check for foreign objects, just as
it is the responsibility of whoever starts the lawnmower to check the oil.
I'm not going to change my mind.

If it helps you at all, my wife agrees with you. At times I hand her things
that would have been destroyed by washings or damaged other things in the
wash, and walk away, the superior being.

Works for me.

Steve ;-)