The Blythlyway in Guyana

Monday, August 28, 2006

There is a humbling futility to be had when attempting to iron clothing, especially when said ironing is accompanied by the One Love music from the rastafarian neighbors sound system pumping in the background. Now any who know me shall be surprised to hear me even speak of ironing, as I have generally let known my distaste for attempting to remove creases from clothing. It ranks with making the bed in the morning as among my least well regarded tasks. But I must hold off for a moment and attend to the water pump which is squealing, thereby telling me that no water is being pumped into our cistern and since there is only 1 more hour of public water tonight I best attend to it.
...A little wetter, but no worse for wear.
Today was washing day for us at our lovely Guyanese home. Two loads done by hand using the shell of a formerly functioning washing machine as the basin. The laundering went well, as it is fun, at least for a limited time and with not much else pressing full your calender, and besides it involves water and therefore is cool on a mild but still tropical afternoon. The drying was also a sinch since the sun is plenty ample for that task.
No the real humility comes with the ironing. Now you could expect that the reason I was ironing is due to the chance that it is Sat. night and tommorrow is Sunday, and this being a part of the world where one does not show up to church in wrinkled clothing even when one's wife is not the Pastor ( as invariably Miriam Adelaide is called), and if I have any chance at all in making it unwrinkled through the three services then I should start now at the ironing and do a thorough job of it at that. Unfortunately this would only represent half of the circumstances which find me ironing both loads of laundry, including, no especially the underware. I blame this on missionary training, wherein a nice anecdote was told regarding a certain tropical parasite which lays it's eggs in your clothing as they dry on the line, only to hatch in your skin when the heat of your body wakens the little buggers.
So I am a chagrined by my actions but, while I have a musical beat provided, never the less I am ironing, even -no especially- my underware.

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Yes indeed, I see the similarity of experience - Though here in fiji, the ironing is necessary to make clothes feel something like dry. Our precious stash of notebooks and paper is often in a near soggy state. We don't have quite the malicious laundry insects, I don't think.

 
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