Communication Fail

Mr. Trizzle and I have been trying that laundry mat thing. We seem to have some fundamental differences over how we do laundry. For example, Mr. Trizzle insists that I like to do all that ‘fancy’ stuff, like use the different temperature settings on the washing machines. (Mr. Trizzle is sort of the opposite of my daddy; he washes everything on warm and dries it all on hot.)

Now that he makes baller money, we also seem to disagree on what’s reasonable. A week’s worth of laundry at the apartment building costs $6.00 (4 laundry loads at $1.00 each, plus 4 dryer loads at $.50 each). A week’s worth of laundry this week at the laundry mat cost us $12.00 (2 big washers at $4.00, one little washer at $2.00 and 3 loads of dryer at $.75, $1 and $1.50.) We’re trying to experiment at how to use the laundry mat most cost-effectively. (I don’t think we can win with the dryers. Washers, maybe – dryers, no.)

Anyway, as we switched from the washers to the dryers, I was in my usual ‘how do we make this cheaper?’ mode. The following conversation ensued:

Mr. Trizzle: I’ve got x in this dryer here, and y in that dryer and the dryer already going has all the whites.

Me: We’re running three dryers?!

Mr. Trizzle: No.

Me: No?

Mr. Trizzle: We’re running one dryer.

Me: But you just showed me a bunch of them.

Mr. Trizzle: Yes, I’m going to take what’s still in the washer and add it to those two loads when the washer finishes.

Me: So we’re running three dryers?

Mr. Trizzle: No

Me: There’s one going now and you have stuff in two more.

Mr. Trizzle: Yes.

Me: That’s three.

Mr. Trizzle: But we’re only running one. We’ll be running three dryers later when the washer stops.

Me: (walking away in a huff)

Mr. Trizzle: (annoyed I’m upset with him for *no* reason)

By the way, he wasn’t trying to be funny. He was just being Mr. Trizzle.