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Black is the new white




As an added bonus for my loyal blog readers (yes plural!)  I’m going to start sharing words of wisdom that my kids so willingly share with me.  I know that this stuff is so valuable I should  charge for it, but I’m going to share it for free.  Write this down people, because you’ll probably never hear it anywhere else.

This is a conversation I had with my 14 year old last night.  Background info: he does his own laundry, not because he is so helpful that way, but because mom got tired of the daily laundry requests.

Tanner: Is it too late to do a load of laundry? I need to wash whites.

Mom: I guess not, but don’t just throw in yours, throw in all the whites in the hamper. 

Tanner (after finding very few whites in the hamper): Do these gray shorts count as white?  (the shorts are white and light gray)

Mom: yes

Tanner (back with a few more things):  Do these black jeans count as white?

Mom:  shocked silence, absolutely nothing to say to that.  He was actually waiting for the answer though, so I eventually had to get up off the floor, stop laughing, and explain that NO, black  does not count as white.

Don’t you wish you lived at my house? The hilarity never stops. Just do not let my son do your laundry.

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    Filed Under Crazy true stories, My boys, too good not to share | 6 Comments 

    6 Responses to “Black is the new white”

      1
        Sharla on October 14th, 2009 2:09 pm

        LOL, maybe he’s color blind? No, probably not.

      2
        Robyns Online World on October 14th, 2009 4:35 pm

        My hubby is the one who has trouble with laundry sorting at our house. Taylor is lazy about it, but he really does know what goes with what. Hubby on the other hand puts reds in with darks, colors in with whites, whites in with colors – and when you ask him he always is dumbfounded that he did it wrong.

      3
        Karen R on October 14th, 2009 4:48 pm

        Slip something red in there and see what he thinks about pink underwear. Ha-ha….I’m mean.

      4
        Lori Z. on October 14th, 2009 11:58 pm

        Wait, why are you laughing? Aren’t they all just shades of grey?

      5
        Sheri on October 15th, 2009 2:29 pm

        LOL Lori, I think thats what he thinks.

        We did have a laundry “incident” this summer. He had just started doing his own laundry and put a new pair of purple jeans in with some whites… I was very thankful that he did not make the effort to gather up anyone’s laundry but his own, otherwise we’d all be wearing various shades of purple.

      6
        Miley Parker on October 18th, 2009 1:37 pm

        In terms of washing laundries, there are really time that colors were really confusing for our kids. Specially the light colors clothes. As your son’s asking you that “Do these black jeans count as white?” well that was really confusing for him because he had no idea that in doing a laundry he have to separate the white from the colored clothes that is why he ask if that pants was white, just simple as that is my opinion.