A Low Level of Agitation
So I’m washing a few sweaters today in my clothes washer. It says on the tags to use cold water and the gentle cycle on the machine, which I am.
Just for giggles I thought I’d watch the action going on under the lid for awhile. I’m not real sure what is supposed to happen so I’m doing some research and found:
Agitation - the act of agitating something; causing it to move around (usually vigorously)
Agitated - troubled emotionally and usually deeply
Going by the first definition, I have to say that is not what is happening.
- There is some movement but it’s far from vigorous and since the washer is set to gentle I’m not exactly expecting anything too violent.
- The sweater on the top must be unable to swim since it’s determined not to be pulled under by the current.
- After a good 5 minutes, the sweater on top still is floating with parts of it remaining dry.
Maybe gentle is too gentle? Before the second definition sets in, I gave the regular agitation setting a try and that setting is working, vigorously churning the sweaters from top to bottom through the water. Alas, the tags indicate a gentle setting is recommended. Nowhere does it say what the consequences are if those instructions are ignored, so I may become quite agitated (deeply troubled) when the machine is finished.
Nobody but you could find washing sweaters to be fun! You gotta love the sweater that couldn’t swim (it was probably treading water). I hope they turned out ok. Did you check the labels to see how to dry? Some go from size L to size XS if they go in the dryer (one of your Gram’s favorite tricks). Then the question is where to lay them flat to dry. Why did these questions never come up at Lost River?
@Mom
Yes they’re all “lay flat to dry.” I spread out a bunch of towels and there they lay. (Or is it lie?) I think they turned out OK, I’m normally lazy and take them to the cleaner, but in this time of “economic uncertainty” I thought I’d save a buck.
Ah-ha! “Necessity is the mother of invention.” (People lie, things lay)
Thanks for that definition. You, the grammatical one, better be careful or you’ll have people afraid to send you messages that you might scan for errors!