this isn’t my story, but i must tell it. not to be braggy, but it totally outdoes any other laundry story i’ve ever heard (and it’s so tragic!).
my friend was sorting through the laundry, which she was doing for the entire family – her mom, her dad, herself, her brother, and her sister; so it’s quite a load – and she makes piles on the floor. she has 2 ferrets in the room in which the laundry machine and dryer are located (it’s not a laundry room, really, just a bedroom they use for random things like that). anyway, when they’re home they often let the ferrets run around, and one of the ferrets must have burrowed into one of the piles she’d already sorted through. she just scooped up the mountain of clothes and put them in the wash, and when she returned to take them out, she realized that her ferret was in there too. needless to say, it died.
isn’t that horrible? like to realize that you killed your ferret. in the washer. oh god. i think it’s so sad, she cried for like a week every time she saw her other (living) ferret. i have to admit i laughed when she first told me, because she told me via a text (“i killed my ferret.” how? “i put it in the washing machine! )))):”) but then i was pretty devastated…