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My recent post about hanging laundry was inspired by a coworker who said his girlfriend would never hang her underwear out in the yard where people could see. I thought that was a little odd, but then I decided it probably wasn’t a very rare opinion after all. Especially because I know how common it is for neighborhoods or communities to ban it altogether.
I don’t know why people get so upset about clothes on the line. Oh, it’s so ugly. It makes people think we’re trashy. It drives down property values. Get over it, people! It’s clothing. Everybody has it. Everybody washes it. Everybody dries it. Why should it look bad? What are you, the fashion police?
No, you’d rather force people to burn coal to dry their clothing. Yeah, it’s also about resources. City ordinances to prohibit people from using renewable resources to go about their daily business? There’s something wrong with that picture too. And what’s uglier? Laundry drying, or a strip mine? I guess it doesn’t matter as long as neither one is in your back yard, huh?
People are too uptight. And the fewer people hang their clothes outside, the more people think it’s rare, and unecessary. Wash your damn clothes and hang them on the line.
I don’t know why people get so upset about clothes on the line. Oh, it’s so ugly. It makes people think we’re trashy. It drives down property values. Get over it, people! It’s clothing. Everybody has it. Everybody washes it. Everybody dries it. Why should it look bad? What are you, the fashion police?
No, you’d rather force people to burn coal to dry their clothing. Yeah, it’s also about resources. City ordinances to prohibit people from using renewable resources to go about their daily business? There’s something wrong with that picture too. And what’s uglier? Laundry drying, or a strip mine? I guess it doesn’t matter as long as neither one is in your back yard, huh?
People are too uptight. And the fewer people hang their clothes outside, the more people think it’s rare, and unecessary. Wash your damn clothes and hang them on the line.
