The underwear incident...
Sep. 9th, 2003 10:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blinkerReaders who've spent time hanging out with me and Kelly may be aware that we have a series of long-running jokes about Kelly having affairs to keep her busy while I'm working late. We also have a running joke about how she can't really have an affair because the guilt would drive her to confess within hours.
So I was really surprised at my reaction when, as I was finishing up the laundry in our basement late last night, I saw a pair of underwear on the floor by the washing machine. My first thought was "I wonder if Kelly dropped these?" followed closely by "but we don't shop at Victoria's Secret!" I left the mystery underwear on the washing machine and went upstairs to talk to Kelly. Somehow, while walking up a flight of stairs, I managed to go from "I wonder if she let the upstairs neighbors use our washing machine for some reason"* to "wow, what if she really is having an affair, could that really happen?"
Kelly found the whole thing terribly funny and suggested that perhaps the laundry elves had moved the mystery underwear from the neighbors' laundry area (on the other side of the basement) over to ours just to spook me. She assured me that she was not having an affair and besides her other girlfriend only wears thongs. I figured that made sense and I left the mystery underwear on top of the neighbors' washing machine. Hopefully their girlfriends won't get all weird and suspicious too. Perhaps I should have left a note.
* The upstairs neighbors (a revolving cast of 3 guys and assorted girlfriends) only knock on our door to say things like "can you do something about this mouse that got caught in the mousetrap? It's kind of wigging me out" or "can I use your phone to track down the guy who has the only keys to my apartment that aren't currently locked in the apartment?" or "can we leave this mattress on your back porch for a few weeks?" so it was perfectly conceivable that they'd have needed to use our washing machine for some reason.
So I was really surprised at my reaction when, as I was finishing up the laundry in our basement late last night, I saw a pair of underwear on the floor by the washing machine. My first thought was "I wonder if Kelly dropped these?" followed closely by "but we don't shop at Victoria's Secret!" I left the mystery underwear on the washing machine and went upstairs to talk to Kelly. Somehow, while walking up a flight of stairs, I managed to go from "I wonder if she let the upstairs neighbors use our washing machine for some reason"* to "wow, what if she really is having an affair, could that really happen?"
Kelly found the whole thing terribly funny and suggested that perhaps the laundry elves had moved the mystery underwear from the neighbors' laundry area (on the other side of the basement) over to ours just to spook me. She assured me that she was not having an affair and besides her other girlfriend only wears thongs. I figured that made sense and I left the mystery underwear on top of the neighbors' washing machine. Hopefully their girlfriends won't get all weird and suspicious too. Perhaps I should have left a note.
* The upstairs neighbors (a revolving cast of 3 guys and assorted girlfriends) only knock on our door to say things like "can you do something about this mouse that got caught in the mousetrap? It's kind of wigging me out" or "can I use your phone to track down the guy who has the only keys to my apartment that aren't currently locked in the apartment?" or "can we leave this mattress on your back porch for a few weeks?" so it was perfectly conceivable that they'd have needed to use our washing machine for some reason.
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Date: 2003-09-09 09:42 pm (UTC)Gawd, that woman is so devious, I bet she just sounded completly natural with her laugh and then the thong joke. Because, like, the slu she's knocking pedicures with actually has some thongs, or something.Kelly is so funny!no subject
Date: 2003-09-09 10:31 pm (UTC)i wish my cat would go and have an affair with someone...b/c that'd shut her up. but then i'd have to deal with the babies...
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Date: 2003-09-10 06:30 am (UTC)