Word: wet
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...sneaking suspicion that I would be the only girl in the Fleet Center who blow-dried her hair before she went to see steroid-filled men pretend to mortally wound one another wearing uni-suits at WWF's Smackdown!. I even contemplated leaving it wet, but my vanity, and the idea that one of these wrestlers might be cute, got the better of me. So I blow-dried my hair, put on the most non-descript outfit I could think of, and headed to the Fleet Center armed with my mace and two days of beginner Tae Bo videos...
...Both words, after all, are slurs, oddly similar in that they are formed by referring to a part of the body (neck or back) and adding a short, morally neutral word (red or wet) to form an insult...
Annoyed that the owner of the clothes occupying said washer wasn't waiting diligently to switch his clothing to the dryers, you decide to pay him a favor and courteously dump his wet clothing on the nearest nominally clean surface, convincing yourself that the sticky goo is water, not congealed detergent. At long last you can start your laundry--the first of six loads--and the odyssey has begun. And for the next three hours, you trek back and forth switching each load...
...drier, you get an e-mail from your TF reminding you about that problem set you forgot to turn in last Friday. Dinner comes next and only later that evening do you remember your long-neglected laundry, returning to find that some equally courteous person has dumped your wet clothes on that puddle of goo--what a jerk, couldn't he tell that it wasn't water?--and your dried clothes have returned to the dust-bunny lair from whence they came...
...real pain of the laundry process college-style could really be alleviated if people would do each other a simple favor--a $1 courtesy or a 10-minute favor every now and then. Imagine if after being waylaid in a conversation or lunch, you came down to find your wet clothes already happily tumbling in the drier. How cool would it be if after forgetting to get your clothes out of the drier in time to cut wrinkles, you got down to find your laundry neatly folded on a clean surface, not lying amongst swaths of lint and old drier...