He's just not as meticulous as me.

nods. Mr. Nik was banned early in our marriage when he washed one of my favorite dry-clean-only dresses.

that is why you marry someone who has been a bachelor long enough so he knows how to cook and do laundry

a secret theory that will likely get me in trouble: women DON'T want men to do the laundry.

Now wait just one minute, that is not a gender specific strategy. There is even an episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond" to back me up.

oh?

a ha!

That's why you have kids! They're great slave labor!

no kids. I'll have to get on it....there are chores to be done, dammit!