Chaos is in the eye of the beholder I’ve learned...to some (or most), our morning routine would appear to be a hot mess. A chaotic hour filled with making breakfast, arguing over eating breakfast, Tom and Jerry on TV, brushing teeth, taking vitamins, hair styling, getting dressed, taking care of the dogs who bound through the house with the energy of 10 two year olds as soon as my alarm sounds, and trying to either start a load of laundry or load the dishwasher...or both if I have an extra moment. But to us...this is complete organization...and it works well! We are consistently out of the house 7 or 12 minutes after we should have departed, and making me only a few minutes late to work every day!
Normal though, completely normal, organized chaos I guess, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. April 28th, 2015...my morning was interrupted. Forgetting to lay out kid clothes the night prior is a common practice, so with about 10 minutes before our hopeful leave time, I found myself rifling through the dryer attempting to locate “the dark pair of pants” for Benji, whatever that means. Digging, searching, hoping to find the dark pants and avoid a meltdown, and then it flew out of the dryer and landed on my leg. A tail. Yes...a tail. Brown, hairy, and pretty lifeless. As it sat on my knee as it had landed, I paused, stared, and assumed that my eyes were fuzzy due to lack of caffeine. Then...I touched it. As I suspected, it didn’t move. Then I picked it up...still didn’t move. It was definitely a tail. It was small, maybe once connected to a chipmunk or small squirrel, who knows...and how did it get into my dryer?
Several theories have been investigated including the other half part of the creature still being in my dryer (haven’t yet found it, but I haven’t yet folded that load of laundry!), an animal jumped in to the dryer through the dryer vent that leads to freedom, and the most likely theory of one of my children filling their pockets with nature. Of course nobody will admit to it, why would anyone ever admit to pocketing a squirrel tail anyway? My guess is Presley, seems like her sort shenanigan. The last couple of days have been calm, no tails, no feet, no creature bodies. One of these days I’ll get around to folding the laundry, cautiously of course, to avoid finding the rest of the creature, or to slow down the inevitable. But now I’m ready, bring on the surprises!
The Tail. |
What a strange story! Jody, I definitely do not envy you having to deal with this. Thankfully, this can't be a very common occurrence. I've only had my kid's stuffed animals sneak into the dryer, but never a real live squirrel! Did you have to have the dryer taken apart after that or were you able to just clean it out and keep using it?
ReplyDeleteRolando Ramirez @ Aardvark Dryer Vent