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...glove to scour the kitchen sink, or in the wedges of pears sliced onto a plate for a baby's lunch." It hits Nora's neighbor Donna Durgin one day when she is "wounded by the kindness" of the Sears repairman, who doesn't charge her for fixing the washer because he can tell she really cares about things. "You wouldn't believe some of the laundry rooms I've seen," he says. Her husband has not said anything as kind for years; after she carefully lays out dinner and the next day's clothes for the kids, Donna walks...
...response: "Having a problem with trust? Try dealing with people in a college laundry room who find it funny to tell an inexperienced clothes-washer that it's all right to use bleach on bright colors. Now I look like a throwback to the 1960s because everything I own is tie-dyed...
...hanging out there like wind spoilers. Talks with a trace of a lisp. Looks like he'd be at home on the showroom floor of any Sears store in Middle America, moving metal. Appliances, that is. Be good at it too. Get you right into that Kenmore 831 series washer when what you were really thinking about was the 701 at 56 bucks less. But oh so politely, so that you later reckon it was your idea in the first place. Bet he loves to fish and swap tall tales. Family man. Churchgoer. Never kicked...
...this was not the time to get overly complicated about the whole affair. I dumped all of my clothes in a washer, smacked in 75 cents, and washed cold. Mom had mentioned that cold washing prevents color bleeding...
...more to eat away everyone's leisure time than any other factor. If both mother and father are working to make ends meet, as is the case in 57% of U.S. families, someone still has to find the time to make lunches and pediatrician appointments, shop, cook, fix the washer, do the laundry, take the children to choir practice. Single-parent households are squeezed even more...