So we got a new washing machine.

And I did laundry.

New machines always freak me out, because I love to learn them but it scares the crap out of me when I do something wrong.

So I put my two shirts, two pairs of pants, and my hoodie in this new piece of space age machinery, and hit start. Finding the start button amidst the sea of controls was hard enough, but being lost in my amazement of the features it includes, I forgot to put soap in the tray.

So about 3 minutes into the 35 minute cycle, I realized my mistake, and hit the stop button.

Stop on this machine is apparently not stop. It's pause. Go figure, right? I drop the soap in, and hit start again, and it spits more water into the barrel, but only for a few seconds, not the full minute or so that it's supposed to.

Again, I realized my error, and pressed and held the stop button, like you are obviously supposed to to actually stop the devil machine.

Start over...

As I've said, I'm always curious when I get a new machine of some sort. I want to know it's basic workings and how it's cycles work and such. So I decided to sit and watch the load of laundry, to figure out aproximately when it goes from wash to rinse to spin and such.

Yes. I sat and watched all 35 minutes of the cycle. With the last minute remaining being about 4 minutes long in itself. Then it buzzed, telling me it was completely done with everything it was supposed to do.

Not so. There was still soap permeating my 5 articles of clothing, and this simply will not do.

I set it to the rinse/spin cycle, logically thinking that if the brilliant machine forgot to rinse the last 5 minutes like it was supposed to, it would simply add that part of the cycle once I hit start on the rinse/spin cycle.

21 minutes. It's going to take another 21 minutes for the god forsaken washing machine to rinse and spin my clothes. A hoodie, two shirts, and two pairs of pants. 21 minutes.

Go figure.



The moral of the story is, don't trust your brand new, 2009 model space age washing machine to wait until you put the soap in before it starts its stuff.

It will always let you down.