Monday, January 4, 2010
11:56 PM
Wringer Washing Machines
These were weird little contraptions. Thankfully, by the time I came along, my parents were no longer using this type of washing machine. My grandparents still had one, though and there was also one at the laundry mat we used to go to after our home washing machine broke down. (I dearly love my dad but truth is truth and he was never, ever one to making fixing things around the house a priority. That washing machine probably could have been fixed with a cheap, simple part and about an hour or less of labor but my dad just let it set in our basement and rot, rather than fix it. We got a brand new washer and dryer set at the end of my 4th grade year. But most of my life up to that point, my mom and I had to go to a laundry mat to wash clothes.) I never liked this machines much but I was a tiny bit fascinated by the ringer at the top. After you washed your clothes in the tub part of the appliance, you ran each piece in between those two black rollers and those rollers would wring the excess water out of your garment. I used to like to watch people do that until one day, when I was about 3 or 4, I watched a boy just a little bit older than me, stick his hand in there and get it painfully smashed. I'll never forget hearing him scream and cry. I wouldn't go near that machine again after that. lol