metaquotes | It's probably just eaten the socks

If you decide to load the washing-machine for an unusual second run while you're out in the evening, it would be a good idea to remember actually to start the machine before you go out. Otherwise you will come in half-cut, decide it's a bit late but you might as well start it anyway. Then you'll tease Mac with shreds of ham while you prepare dinner, and he will dance with frustration and scrabble his paws across the control-panel as he always does, only this time the machine will actually be on and the buttons he presses will make a difference. And lights will flash, and you won't know what's happened, and everything will take so long you will go to bed before it's finished and not know till morning whether you still own any clothes.

desperance wishes flashing washing machine lights were scrutable.