"Oh quit yer bitchin' ... you know you like doing the laundry with me!" my Dear One teased, holding the door to our neighborhood laundromat open for me.
"Hey-ee!" I jumped, nearly dropping the laundry basket when she goosed me on my way past her. "Careful Hon, I'm commando now!"
(She must like touching my butt. I remember that time when I was making strawberry shortcake... ahhhh... She just never ceases to amaze me!)
"Mmmm, yes, I know!" she grinned, gently groping my crotch then rubbing me there for just a second. "Ooo! What's this? A rise in the Levi's?"
"I'll give you a rise alright," I grumbled, setting the basket on the floor to pick up the bottle of Clorox that fell onto the floor.
"What's that? You were mumbling again!"
"I said," said I, "you are such a delight!"
Laundry has never been one of my favorite things to do either... like shopping. And, although I had gotten a little better at tolerating shopping since I started shopping more with her (too bad the Giant Eagle doesn't have dressing rooms!), laundry still isn't one of those weekly events I look forward to. It's boring. The magazines are all that girlie stuff... (what, they don't think men come to laundromats? Jeeze! A Field & Stream once in awhile would be nice! Playboy might be better... nah... too many ads... not like the good ol' days!) And forget t.v.! I don't really want to watch those talk shows, and ya think they'd keep the remote handy? Oh, hell no! Customer Service? yeah, right. Yep... laundry ain't high on my list of favorite things!
Well, this won't be so bad, I considered. It's a 24/7 kind of place, and because we were, uh, pre-occupied earlier, we didn't get a chance to get here in the afternoon like we usually do. It was way past midnight, and there was nothing but infomercials on the t.v., muted, which was nice. (Hate those things... infomercials. What a waste of good airspace!) The owners of the place (friends of mine, and cheapskates) apparently don't see a need to pay someone to baby-sit a bunch of coin-operated machines overnight, which was also nice... since Dear One was starting to get that cute little twinkle in her eyes. She had caught my trance-like stare out of the corner of her eye, I suppose, when she started loading one of the washers with her dainty things.
"Hand me the Woolite," she said, wiggling her butt while she dug in the back pocket of her skirt for some quarters.
"Yes Dear."
"Huh? You say something?"
"uh, Here!"
(Busted being a smart-ass again!)