I was taking the dry clothes out of the dryer the other day and noticedthat all the clothes were covered with a chartreuse colored crusty
gunk. Bewildered, I continued to take the clothes out, piece by piece.
Finally, I reached in and my hand felt something very warm and
squishy. I let out a little scream (just a small "yee-ow", like the time
I touched the snake in the mailbox) as I pulled out a dark rat sized
object. On closer inspection, I realized it was a whole avocado,
half baked from the heat of the dryer. The clothes and the entire
inside were smeared with warm guacamole! Don't even ask me how...
Finally, I reached in and my hand felt something very warm and
squishy. I let out a little scream (just a small "yee-ow", like the time
I touched the snake in the mailbox) as I pulled out a dark rat sized
object. On closer inspection, I realized it was a whole avocado,
half baked from the heat of the dryer. The clothes and the entire
inside were smeared with warm guacamole! Don't even ask me how...
Arrrr...tengo hambre!
Hooray! That's one small step towards Redneck cooking. Next try using your car's oil drip stick for Shish Kabobs. Tho I still prefer bathtub gin (that is having a bottle of gin while soaking in the tub.)
ReplyDeleteWillow, I've found coins, dollar bills, receipts and golf tees, but never food. A whole avocado - sounds like someone's idea of an experiment gone bad. You might want to check with the usual suspects.
ReplyDeleteWell... a whole avocado is the last thing I thought it would be. The pictures are very cool though.... I am trying to work out what the second one is. :)
ReplyDeleteBathtub gin, shish kabobs and guacamole...mmm...I'm getting hungry.
ReplyDeleteI did round up the usual suspects and couldn't waterboard a confession out of any of them. Could be our resident ghost having a little fun.
That second picture is the same dryer...when he's hungry.
ReplyDeleteLMAO!
ReplyDeleteOMG I am falling about laughing - sorry! I can just imagine your shriek as you felt that, especially as I am sure it was warm - I'd have screamed I think.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the smile :-)
Well, ewww. Laundry day got way more interesting, huh?
ReplyDeletePhew ! I thought you were going to say it was a green snake. Too funny and too weird.
ReplyDeleteNow, that's quite the juxtaposition - avocado + laundry + dryer - rather Dali-esque, or perhaps Picasso, or just maybe, someone's playing a prank.
ReplyDeleteI prefer the green I find in the dryer to be cold, hard, cash - mind you I loooove guacamole (especially homemade).
Kat
(Do you have a dog by any chance?)
Well, it was more like Jackson Pollock inside the dryer! It couldn't be Ralphy, he's in doggy heaven.
ReplyDeleteOh my...that is soooo funny! I've never found an avacado in the drier...just an occassional piece of gum, still in the wrapper...warm and sticking to everything. (grrrrrr!)
ReplyDeleteYou'll have to tell Bill Stankus that our grandpa used to do some Redneck cooking....complete little meals wrapped in foil laying on the engine under the hood while taking a road trip.....a fond memory of mine. :)
Now that is really weird .. how the heck did an avocado get into your washer/dryer?
ReplyDelete:-Daryl
Betsy, now that's a GP memory that I don't have. You must have enjoyed a redneck meal when I wasn't around! :)
ReplyDeleteOh, man!! Avocado??!! I guess everyone has a dryer story from sometime. Once, we lived in a house we rented for a while when I was first married, and our washer and dryer were in the basement. Well, the basement flooded after a deluge, and I took all our laundry to the laundromat. I had waited to do laundry 'til we had tons of clothes needing to be washed, so it was all the wash--I did all the whites, and when I took them out of the dryer, they had multi-colored dots all over them: my husband's nice, crisp white shirts and all. Turns out someone had left a box of Crayola crayons in the dryer and they were BEHIND the tub itself, so you couldn't see them! Most expensive load of wash I ever did!
ReplyDeleteAvocado...oh, man...that's pretty funny! wonder how THAT happened!
Crayons? Ick. At least my avacado washed out easily.
ReplyDeleteOne time, when my oldest was about six (I had a six, four and newborn, at the time) he decided that it would be fun to put the garden hose outside down the dryer vent. When I went down to the basement to finish the laundry, the plastic vent tubing was bulging with gallons of water! Not fun.
How on earth did that avocado get in there? It's not like someone could have fogotten it in theri pocket! Methinks foul play is in the air, Willow!
ReplyDeleteCut back on the Tequila in those Margaritas and you should be able to account for all the avocados before laundry time next week. hee hee I won't even ask. Pappy
ReplyDeleteThat is hilarious!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI wonder how it got in there?
An avacado? That is bizarre, and too funny!!
~Em~
Sounds like something that would happen at my house...
ReplyDeleteI was trying to think of some comment to make when I read Pappy's...cracked me up :) That's the last thing I might have thought you would pull out of the dryer Willow....too funny.
ReplyDeleteOh, okay, Pappy...that's good advice...I hadn't thought of that!?
ReplyDeleteMG, it would have been way more believable 20 years ago, when I would find lots of strange things in the wash.
I saw Pappy's comment over on Birdbath Chronicles and just had to come see what on earth he was talking about - an avocado in your dryer! Then I read your post...not only was it in your dryer but so were the clothes, and now you had half-baked guacamole! It's a first! And I'm sure you are hoping it is a last too.
ReplyDeleteWah-ha-ha!
ReplyDeleteI'm gonna add to Bill's suggestions for Redneck cooking: coffee made with water run through the radiator, or cheese sandwiches grilled on a hot engine, or veggies steamed in the dishwasher.
My condolences on the death of a perfectly good avocado.
Oh, definitely avocado abuse! :) My first thought was - gum! :( You're right, at least THIS washed out easily. At my house, somehow my husband's chapstick mysteriously turns up in the dryer - have ruined more loads than one over the years. Anyway, I'm really enjoying your blog and looking forward to spending more time here :)
ReplyDeleteWillow you get an award for bravery in the call of duty! I don't know if I would have pulled out a rat sized object...wait, I'm sure I would not have done that.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of the time I stuck my hand in the washer to pull out wet clothes and a chameleon latched hold of my knuckle. Talk about man and beast being scared to death. I am sure I heard him screaming as loud as I did!
Toni, thanks for your nice comment and hope to see you around here again soo!
ReplyDeleteStevie, how in the heck did a chameleon get into your washer? Ick!
If you ever get to the bottom of this....I would love to know how and why.
ReplyDeleteI've seen gum, change, toothpicks, etc........but never fruit and vegies! If you ever figure out how it got there, I'd be interested!!!!
ReplyDeleteOkay - here is my take on the "Case of the Half-baked Avocado." A produce vendor was plying his wares near Willow Manor when all of a sudden he noticed an exotic, never-before-seen fruit growing amongst the vines bedecking the Manor walls.
ReplyDeleteIn his excitement to scale the wall and pluck this new-found delight, an avocado slipped from his basket and rolled down the side of the Manor into the dryer tubing that vented to the outside.
Proud of his discovery he left the grounds quickly to introduce the world to his new discovery!
Either that or WT needed warm guacamole in a hurry!
I'm sure that is so much worse than a rogue red sock in with your whites..
ReplyDeleteOkay, Suza, you take the cake for the most imaginative avacado theory!!! :D
ReplyDeleteAnd I was just saying "you can't trust fresh produce anymore." Atleast mine stays in the veggie drawer, and stays and stays...and gets tossed.
ReplyDeleteCynthia
that dryer's got goooood taste. :)
ReplyDeleteHa! I've done the inevitable red object in with the whites by accident before. In the early 80s, a pair of my wife's underthingies ended up in a wash with my work shirts. I was a London police officer at the time and they were expected to be pure white ... and I needed to wear one of the shirts, hastily dried, for the night shift. Thankfully, the dark hid the worst of it but I still raised a few eyebrows with my subtle shade of pink.
ReplyDeleteMy friend once found a very ripe avocado under the driver's seat on my mum's car. It was her first visit and it took a while to persuade her to visit again. Made me laugh (over from Author Blog) MH
ReplyDeleteI'd take the avocado any day - ANY DAY - over a snake in the mailbox! I would literally have died with that one!
ReplyDeletebtw - David sent me!
Warm guac--oh that is funny! I can just imagine it!
ReplyDeleteThanks to all of you who have come over from David's place! :):):)
ReplyDeleteOh, that is too hilarious! Be glad it wasn't menudo...
ReplyDeleteI remember my sister routinely leaving packs of Bubblicious gum in her pants that got in the wash, but the time my mom accidentally washed the Silly Putty was the worst. Our poor mother.
Oh, I did a whole load with Silly Putty one time...horrid...all over the inside of the dryer and completely ruined a huge load of clothes. It was WAY worse than gum. I had totally forgotten that!
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