Modern Inconveniences

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It’s been a trying week. I’ve had to survive without a washing machine! We have so many gadgets nowadays. When I was a kid, my mother certainly didn’t have a washing machine. Saturdays were always a riot, with washing all over the place. However, she did have a mangle! I’ve come to the conclusion that the worst thing about not having a washing machine is not having to wash by hand – it’s having to dry the wretched clothes afterwards. You can’t put dripping wet clothes into a tumble dryer. Fortunately, we hadn’t got rid of our clothes rack, and we do have two bathrooms. Result – a bath containing a rack of dripping socks, underpants, shirts, bras, T-shirts – you name it, there it was! All dripping on to each other, too. The dehumidifier helped – eventually. Then, when they were partially dry, we had all the bother of carrying them down to the utility room to place them in the tumble dryer. Oh, well – a new washing machine was delivered today, and is busily humming away, doing what it’s meant to. So, my question is: Which labour-saving device gives rise to the greatest amount of labour when it goes on strike? In other words, which device would you least rather lose?