Are you hiding, Pia, or waiting for someone on that chair tucked under the kitchen table?

Both, Mom, since you asked. It’s noisy and I know you’ll share this chair with me because this is where you sit.

So, our new washer; it’s really loud. Cats actually hide – Pia under the kitchen table on a chair, Quint upstairs in a tower cubical. Tessa and Viola vow not to hide until the other hides first. So far, neither have given up their usual routine or spots.

It’s a Whirlpool basic top load. There’s no bells and whistles. There’s no quiet setting. It’s a step down from our old washer that told you how many minutes you had left and what washing cycle it was currently on. Apparently, $700 doesn’t get you much anymore. It’s more bottom end grade perhaps and from the get-go, sounds like it going to break at any moment by providing all the loud snaps, clacks, clangs, and chug-chug-chug ambience of a relaxing afternoon spent lounging feet away from a bulldozer scrapping up miles of 50-year-old concrete. Those are the standard “features.”

Sounds like all the cool kid features are reserved for front load washers, you know, the kind that would surely leak through to our first floor if we were to buy one. We got what we paid for. We never kept our laundry room door closed before but we can assure you, when running, we definitely keep it closed now. No more worry that some Colehaus cat is going to hide in there anymore.

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A Colehaus Cats flashback:

2023 – Cool Weather? No, Cool Pia
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2020 – No post
2019 – Not a Wordless Wednesday
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2017 – Will Labor for Fruit
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2015 – Miss Newton, Bugcatcher
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2013 – Wednesday Words
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