washing clothes

I know, I was going to write about drivers but then last night I took a chance and turned on the clothes washer.  The school has a similar washer so one of the janitors panomined how to use it for me. Tried the whites first - they can  handle the mistakes better.  I opened the slot for the detergent and it was crusted black.  So I had to scrape that off first.  Then in goes the undies and out comes half of them.  It's what one would call a minimum capacity machine.  Turned it on and locked the door and waited.  The water came in, the machine rocked some then sat and thought about what it had done.  Decided it could rock some more - but just a little.  This continued for 20 mminutes and finally water cycled so the detergent came in.  Then again rock-n-think and rock-n-think for another 20 min.  Finally spun, rinsed and then really spun.  First one way and then the other.  The second load I worried about and watched too closely; it was my good clothes.  When the soap didn't go in when I thought it should I started to push buttons and turn knobs.  Really messed things up and when I finally ignored the machine it washed my clothes but the whole process took about 1 1/2 hours.  So at 10pm I hung clothes out on the balcony and went to bed.  When I got home tonight everything was dry and fairly wrinkle free.  So I'll probably wash again next week.  So until thing 'sweat smellin' dreams'.