Monday, May 18, 2009

Occasional Brown Spot

Mom warned me about the upstairs washing machine. It works very well except for the occasional brown spot on a white article or two. She says it comes off if you scrub it with the stain remover, which is really inconvenient for such a modern convenience. So I was thinking about what would cause that--not all the time, but just an occasional brown spot.

That night I had a dream. A little bit of brown shoe polish had gotten stuck in the folds of the rubber gasket around the door. Occasionally, a bit of polish would get up into the load and make that occasional brown spot. The fix was easy--clean the shoe polish out of the rubber gasket.

But it was only a dream. In reality we still don't know what is causing that occasional brown spot. Oh, the little inconveniences of modern conveniences.

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