Men and laundry

In Neuchâtel there is a course for men on how to do laundry. Twenty men attended. They were asked why they wanted to do this.

Philippe, 41, says women learned how to do laundry from their mothers. Men didn’t.

Gilles and Claude, 65 and 73, never did a load of laundry in their lives nor wanted to. However when Gilles was asked to take things out of the dryer he was confused. He wanted to know how to do it. Claude thought he should learn in case… He didn’t say in case for what.

Fifty-five year old François wanted to learn how to do laundry in case his wife was in an accident.

It has always amazed me that any man capable of earning a living sometimes in highly complicated fields, can’t run household machinery or even manage to put a towel and his underwear in a basket.