When you put your clothes in the washing machine, you do so with the expectation that they will be washed. Well, that’s your first mistake. Why do you think you deserve clean clothes? When the clothes emerge and don’t have any clumps of coagulated detergent acting as a horrifying adhesive between them, do you even thank me? No, you don’t. But please don’t take this to mean that if you started thanking me, you would get clean clothes. I’m actually not looking for anything from you when I make the washing machine work. I just do it when I want to. It’s an exercise in control, in a world in which control is hard to come by (as evidenced by the fact that you don’t control when your washing machine washes your clothes).journey-inline-newsletterinline-newsletter