The Great Floods

My laundry machine kept flooding my bathroom, and when Ben took a look, he said that when my bathtub was replaced and the machine got moved around, the exhaust hose was put in the wrong hole, but that a piece had been removed so it would fit and I would need a new hose. I mentioned this to my supervisor (who had done the fixing) and he insisted on coming to my home to look. I told him it was okay, but I have a feeling that he and Mastui, who tagged along, were eager to get away from the office for a bit during the day. It was pretty funny to see them both trying to figure out how to fix my little washing machine, with one tilting it and the other, kakhis rolled above the ankles, sqatting below to see what was happening.

They told me to put in some laundry as a test run. I did that, and when they decided it was working, they said that it was time to go back to the office. Of course, this was mid-laundry cycle. I did my best to waylay them (I gave them tea and chocolate), but there was no way I could stay and wait until the end of the cycle. My clean clothes were doomed to wrinkles and mildew.

I asked Matsui if he had ever done laundry before, and he said he had, but informed me that really, you don't wash your own clothes, the machine does it for you. (Ba-dum ching.)

A note on Matsui: Matsui, to me, is hilarious. I told him that I didn't have much experience cooking but that I planned to make stir fry (and had to explain what that was) his response was, "Oh, wow, you really can't cook, can you!" He then proceded to guide me to some leeks, saying that they were better than scallions because they were the same thing but bigger. (I assumed he was right, until I ate it and recognized the flavor - it did not taste good in the stir fry.) He also thought I bought too much garlic, even though I explained that it doesn't really go bad and that I planned to use it pretty much every time I cooked. He's married, and I have heard from the usual (unreliable) sources that he's probably never done any housework in his life.