Laundry pitfalls

So last night the Geeky Spouse and I decided on a TV/laundry combo for our evenings entertainment. This normally means that I fold laundry while we watch the boob toob. Well last night the Spouse decided to help.

I've found through my life that men don't know how to fold laundry. Well some men do, but I think all of them were gay. Its a science and an art combined. Especially when dealing with kid clothes.

So I began with instructing him on the easiest thing I could find in the basket. T-shirts. I swear to God the man took 12 tries to get the shirt right. He looked upon me with new eyes, that bespoke of awe in the fact that I do this ALL THE TIME. I could fold a shirt in what appeared to be nanoseconds to his amazed eyes. The flip to right side out, the halve, the arm tuck the flip and fold, all of these things looked like something out of a rocket manual. I have to say though by the end of the evening, he pretty much had T-shirts in the bag.

So I decided to show him the horror of the worst that laundry has to offer....

the fitted sheet.

Anyone that has ever tried to fold a fitted sheet knows the pitfalls. Most of the time they end up in a slightly bulky lump in the closet, which does make it easier to figure out the fitted from the perfectly folded square that is a flat sheet. I've been folding fitted sheets 1/2 my life now, and half the time for me they end up in a decorative wad. Feeling at the top of my game last night, I did what I felt was the impossible. I finally folded a perfect fitted sheet. My mom would have been so proud.

GS watched in amazement, when I was done his response?

You damn near need an engineering degree to do that.