Blog Love Omega Glee: Clean At Last, Thank God Almighty, We Are Clean At Last (16 January 2012)

"What are you doing?" Jake's sister, Winifred, asks him.

"What's it look like I'm doing? Laundry," Jake says, dumping a load of clothes in the washer.

"Yes, you're doing laundry," Winifred says, picking up a sock that fell on the basement floor and holding it with two fingers as far from the rest of her as possible while scrunching up her face in disgust, "But you're doing it wrong. You're mixing all the whites and colors together."

"That's a myth that you have to wash them separately," Jake says, taking the sock from her, dropping it in the machinechurned whirlpool, and closing the lid on the washer, "It's just like an old wives' tale justifying laundry apartheid."

"No, it's so your colors don't fade from using bleach, and your whites don't turn gray or pick up colors."

"Well, Dr. Martin Luther King may have never thought about the manifestation of white supremacy ideology in laundry, but I'm fulfilling his dream even more by washing my whites and coloreds together."

Winifred shakes her head, "How did you survive on your own in college?"

"I didn't have to deal with laundry segregationists then," Jake says, putting detergent back on the shelf.

"So how is it living with Mom and Dad again? If I had to do that, I'd go crazy. I love them, but by the end of my monthly visit, I'm ready to go back to my apartment in Pittsburgh. But then you're crazy already so maybe it doesn't bother you?"

"Ha, ha, ha, sis. Let's just say I try to stay out of their way . . ." Jake says standing at the foot of the stairs, about to head up.

Jake gets hit in the face by a towel thrown from upstairs. "Oh, my God, Honey, I'm sorry. Are you all right? I didn't know you were down there. I should have looked before I pitched the towel down," Jake's mom says from upstairs.

Jake takes the towel off from where it wrapped around his face, "I'm fine, Mom," Jake yells back up.

Winifred laughs as Jake throws the towel at her, ". . . and I have a dream of moving out as soon as possible," Jake says.

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