Duck incident.

[helen99]

Last weekend the cat peed on rialian's bed, so rialian had to run a load of wash consisting of his entire set of bedclothes (including pillow). Then we both forgot about it. I noticed it a couple of days later and ran it again. Again, neither of us remembered to put it in the drier. Then around Tuesday I found it still there, so I ran it again. There it sat for another 2 days. Then the cat peed on his second pillow, so it, too went into the wash, along with a towel that had fallen to the floor and had also been peed upon.

Thus, last night I ran the wash again. This time I remembered it should go into the drier. I opened the washing machine lid, and noticed something weird. It appeared that a billion feathers had innundated the wash. Uh oh. Sure enough, one of the pillows had burst and dispensed its contents, which were now inextricably woven through the towels and clothing. rialian commented that I had been invoking ducks by saying that I wanted to obtain ducks at some point, so this infusion of duck feathers was the result. I protested that I had specified ducks that go QUACK, but he was not convinced.

I located a containment unit and gathered as much of the erstwhile pillow and its contents into it as possible (I'm preparing to reassemble the pillow, but that hasn't happened yet). I shook out the clothes, swept the resulting avalanche into the bag, and cleaned out the drier as much as possible. Then I put the clothes on air fluff, opening the drier frequently to remove any additional feathers as they were dislodged by the motion. More feathers tumbled out until finally the number of feathers had diminished to a few stragglers. Then I left the clothes on air fluff so the remaining feathers wouldn't burn, removed the feathers from the bowls of catfood, dustmopped a few times to pick up more feathers, and left for work.

Needless to say, I did not call my office and tell them why I was late this morning...

Comments

[vulpine137.livejournal.com]

umm, what a fowl thing to find in the washing machine ? ;)

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Aieeeeee!!!1

[vulpine137.livejournal.com]

*grin* Best response to a bad pun I've seen in a while.

[keyake.livejournal.com]

Eeek, feathers. I left a shirt at your house, too.

[helen99.livejournal.com]

It's safely defeathered and stashed with your camera...

[lyssabard.livejournal.com]

Oh man. I am not sure that's salvageable, that you can wash feathers...am I wrong here?

*HUG*

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Apparently you can, since I just did. They're nice and clean and ready for restuffing, should I decide to go that route... Ducks are made for water, so I'm sure they were right at home..

[aekiy.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of asking you if one or more of the Bigglesworths had gotten into a fight..

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Hm. I guess you must have seen the towel.

[aekiy.livejournal.com]

And the shirt, and the various feather strewn across the floor and outside the front door.. ya, ehe

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. The front door. That was when I shook out the dustmop. I know it doesn't look like it, but that's only a small fraction of all the feathers. I found out today that walking on a thick layer of feathers is really nice...

[aekiy.livejournal.com]

heheehee (^*^) Oh, I believe it.. there aren't that many feathers left laying around, just more than you would normally expect (which is closer to none).

[aierea.livejournal.com]

I did the very same thing once but the feathers ended up clogging up the drain hose from the washing machine and the drain pipe. Had to call the plumbing to unclog it all in the long run.

Said he has seen worse but not many that were clogged up by duck and goose feathers. Told me he wondered how I had managed to coax so many barnyard animals into the washing machine. :)