My Washing Machine Story!
Okay! So recently I found out through my Sister in law and Facebook,that Surf Excel is allowing women like me to share their most hilarious washing machine experiences. I never thought I would ever be sharing this story of mine on a public platform. Although it's strangely funny, but when it happened, it left me out of speech for atleast one whole day!
So the thing is that I live in a studio apartment in Dubai and I use Samsung Ecobubble Technology for the past 2 or 3 years. I never faced any problem while using it and I have always found it too "easy and too good to be true type machine! So coming back to my story, well, as you all must know that the Studio apartments have small kitchenettes and usually things are a little cluttered all over the place ( despite all the clean-up trials! TRUST ME!) I had a bucket full of Aata (Whole wheat flour) that I had kept right beside the area where my washing machine is fixed in the kitchenette. Now to avoid any kind of confusion, I put a label on that bucket as well as my husband also uses the kitchen sometimes. The detergent was in a small space nearby where nothing else could be kept.
So a guest came to stay over my place for a couple of days. She has small kids and with kids you know that regular laundry is required. So for 2 or 3 days I did all the laundry, but then my guest asked me to show her the method and show her the place of detergent and fabric softener etc. so she could do the laundry for her kids herself. I told her everything and left things on her and got busy with other things. She started doing her laundry daily before I woke up in the morning. In her own mind, she was being very efficient and non-troublesome guest who does not bother the host too much. After 3 days I believe, I woke up from my slumber and went to the kitchen. My guest had just put her kids clothes in the machine and was about to switch on its power. I asked if she put the detergent already. She said she does not need to! On a whim, I opened the drawer/chamber where detergent is put and my vision hit a yellow, gooey, weird stuff in there! I got very confused as this had never happened to my detergent. The smell was yeasty, old detergenty sort of. So I got suspicious and opened the clothes chamber and found that same gooey stuff over there as well. The smell was bad there as well. I asked my guest as to what in the whole world could this yellow thing be! She very innocently said," I don't know! But there seems to be a problem with your machine. It just does not consume its detergent! I daily put some detergent in there and it becomes gooey and even my clothes get small clumps of this yellow detergent that I have to brush off when they get dried!!! "
You can imagine how my eyes got widened-(so much that I fear they would have popped out of their sockets). I just looked around and saw the bucket of aata (whole wheat flour) lying innocently near the machine. In a very quiet voice and managing as much politeness as I could, despite my raging emotions of shock and hilarity, I asked if she could tell me where exactly she was taking the "detergent "from. She pointed towards the bucket of aata. I can't describe my feelings at that time. In one moment I was shocked at the absurdity of the situation, the other moment I was worrying for my machine and hoping that no harm came to it because of that clogged aata. I told her about her blunder and she got extremely embarrassed. I asked her how she could even mistake wheat flour with detergent! I mean, the textures are a world apart from each other! She admitted that in her heart she was not liking my detergent and thinking to offer me to get a new one ASAP! I was shocked, worried, angry and amused at the SAME time! For some time I was at a loss of words!
She was a dear guest and I didn't mean to make her feel much bad about it. But the whole incident was so weird that I could never forget it. And whenever I recall it, I can't stop laughing. Thank God no harm was done other than a little wastage of aata and itching on her kids' bodies because of wearing aata-washed clothes! She was stupefied and took my promise that I would not tell anyone about it! But as a very famous Urdu poet once said, Woh waada hi kia jo wafa hojaye! (What promise would it be that is kept!) 😉😉
Till this day, I have cherished this absurd incident and I hope you all will find it funny too. A lesson I learnt from this whole episode was to hide my aata bucket in my clothes wardrobe instead of keeping it near the washing machine whenever any guests are coming over! Trust me, prevention is better than cure!!! 😉😆
Edited by Doc.love - 7 years ago