31 Oct 2008, Posted by Cat in News, 24 Comments. Tagged haunted
I think my laundry might be haunted!
Still hot out there, but now it’s windy too.
I went out back just now to bring in the sheets off the line. I was thinking about the story I’ve just finished as I unpegged them and hauled them in. A few minutes later I went back out to bring in the t-shirts, socks, etc when i noticed one of the white sheets was back on the line!!! Well, obviously it couldn’t be. My mind had been preoccupied — clearly I had only brought one sheet in, not two, silly me. But when I went into the bedroom there were two white sheets in there!!! An extra king sized white fitted base sheet has manifested itself on my washing line! Why, maybe its even spun from pure ectoplasm! Or maybe it belongs to a neighbour and the wind blew it over the fence. Either way, its the darndest freakin thing…
24 Comments
October 31, 2008 4:37 am
king_espresso
Maybe someone is giving you the sheets.
October 31 2008 04:41 am
Cat @
Boom boom! Turned out it belonged to Jane next door. Thing is, her hills hoist is nowhere near our fence -- the sheet must have blown right over her enormous garage!
October 31, 2008 4:40 am
ashamel
It could be worse. There could be sheet in your gelato.
October 31 2008 04:41 am
Cat @
Oh dear -- that's a shocker!
October 31, 2008 4:45 am
tallaudrey
That’s quite bizarre.
October 31, 2008 4:56 am
girliejones
Tis Halloween afterall.
October 31 2008 04:58 am
Cat @
very true.
October 31, 2008 6:45 am
martinlivings
That’s some scary sheet!
(damn, someone’s already used this joke, pretty much…)
October 31 2008 06:48 am
Cat @
yeah, I think we're all punned out, sheet-wise.
October 31, 2008 11:32 am
mortonhall
I find it even more bizarre that you and your neighbours having matching sheets
October 31 2008 11:45 am
Cat @
me too!
October 31, 2008 1:11 pm
flinthart
A pity you’ve acquired an explanation. I was hoping for a sort of reverse snowdropper – a person who, instead of stealing your laundry, actually sneaks up and leaves some.
You know… that kinda sounds like fun. Visit Vinnie De Paul. Acquire a lot of random clothes. Then sneakily redistribute such clothes to suburban clotheslines.
Heh. I like that. A subtle addition of chaos to the world.
October 31 2008 20:06 pm
Cat @
yeah, sorry the explanation turned out to be so boring...
November 01 2008 06:14 am
satyapriya @
I like this idea, and, as I speak, I have a car boot full of old clothes.... Wonder how many back yards I could sneak into, though....
October 31, 2008 9:46 pm
austspecfic
That would have freaked me out. I would have convinced myself I was nuts. Mind you the electrician tells me he picked up bits of my laundry because of the wind blowing them about yesterday while I was at work…egads! I like to be present when a strange man fondles my smalls.
October 31 2008 21:48 pm
Cat @
I did seriously consider the idea that my mind might have blown a gasket... but the wind was a definite clue.
November 1, 2008 6:13 am
satyapriya
I had a vivid blue towel with little pussycat black paw prints on it manifest in my washing machine. I’d never seen it before, the kids denied all knowledge, and we’d had no visitors for a while. I’ve been using it as a swimming towel for around eighteen months, now.
November 02 2008 03:37 am
Cat @
maybe magic laundry is more common than we realise!
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