retrospec | ... Help.

Well, definitely don't put the the dry clean stuff in the wash.

Symbols? It isn't written out in English?

Is there anything in your laundry room labeled TIDE or ALL? I'd suggest other detergents, but I don't see you using anything so cheap.

Do you need me to stop by after work?

There's mostly drawings on the labels that are left. I think a lot of labels have been cut because they're annoying and scratchy, too.

I can't see anything like that, but I could be looking in the wrong place.

If it's not too much of an imposition, I'd appreciate that.

I'll be by after work. In the mean time, try to sort your clothes into piles.

[Derek arrives back at the apartment building around 5:30pm. He drops his bag off at his apartment, grabs his own detergent and dryer sheets and walks over Kenta and Jirou's place. He knocks on the door and waits. Hopefully Kenta was successful in sorting his clothes.]

[It takes a little time for Kenta to come open the door, because he has to remember there's no one else to open the door.]

Hi. Come in.

[The laundry room is... pretty much a disaster zone.]

Everyone seems to have different idea son hos to sort things.

[Derek enters the apartment and enters the laundry room.]

Well, as long as you don't mix colors with the white, you're mostly fine...which... where is your white pile.

[Derek turns in a circle at the laundry room.]

Oi... what happened in here?

Most of the white is my shirts and they normally get dry-cleaned.

And some people said they sorted by colors, and other said to watch bottoms and tops separately.... everyone does it differently it seems.

[And he points to the bigger pile.]

And those don't have any labels.

I can understand the separating the tops and bottoms in certain situations but that...

[Derek points to the pile of 'no labels.']

That is going to be a challenge to figure out. My suggestion is to wash the clothing we can that does have labels. An the no labels... we could guess how to wash them, run everything on delicate and hang dry it. Since you have a front loader, you have a less chance of something getting caught in the agitator. But I know for a fact that anything silk has to be hand washed.

[Derek point to the laundry room sink.]

You can put the silks in a pile next to the sink. And anything else we're not sure of we can hand wash.

Rindou suggested hand washing too, but I won't have the time to do this every day.

[At least he knows what's silk and what isn't. So he can sort that pretty quickly, but the 'silk' pile is pretty big, because Jirou like silk.]

Jirou can probably tell what most of these are made of, but I don't think he knows how to wash them either.

[Derek lets out a sigh. Wow, this was going to be more challenging than he thought.]

This is what happens when you cut off your tags...

[Derek looks at the pile of silks.]

Wow... you guys had your maids washing that much stuff by hand all the time?

[Derek picks up one of the silks. Oh man this stuff is expensive.]

I don't even feel comfortable hand washing this stuff. It's too nice. How long do you think Jirou can go with out wearing silk until we figure out another way to wash these... like hire someone who actually knows what they are doing...

I have no idea how they normally do it.

[Because if he did, he wouldn't be in this pickle, Derek.]

We have enough clothing to get around for a while with no trouble, but Jirou might really want to wear one of these...

Maybe we can wash like... two? Hand washing two of these won't take too long.

[Derek picks up one of the silks.]

Which ones does he like, but not necessarily love, just in case we accidentally wash it wrong...

[Kenta hesitates, then picks one of the dresses.]

Let's try with this one. It's not too new.

[Not too old either because if something is old it means Jirou loves it enough to keep, but if it's completely new it's because he just bought it. Not too new sounds like the right thing.]

OK, so lets put that in the sink and we'll hand wash that after we load the wash. So... which load to you want to do first? Colors? Whites?

There's a lot more colors, so lets' start with that.

Should we separate them further? Darker colors and lighter colors?

[See, he really is taking all of this in.]

[Derek looks at the pile of clothes.]

Yeah, this is a lot. Start tossing the lights into the washer and lets put the colors...

[Derek picks up a dark shirt and tosses at en empty corner.]

Over there.

[Derek gets down on he knees and starts sorting. Tossing lights into the washer.]

[Kenta will help with the sorting.

Of course, they end up with a pile of dry clean only that is quite big.

I guess for those we'll have to wait.

[Once everything is sorted and the washer is filled with the first load, Derek closes the door and grabs his box of tide pods.]

OK, now for the soap.

[Derek pulls out a pod and hods one up.]

Don't eat this.

[Derek pulls open the small drawer and puts it into the spot for the soap and then closes it.]

Now to reduce the risk of ruining anything I'm going to set the clothes to colors, delicate, cold...

[Derek starts pushing buttons and turning dials.]

And then you push the start button. Want to do the honors?

[Derek points to a small button with a blinking light.]

.... Why would anyone want to eat that?!

[Seriously, Derek, he may not know household chores, but he knows not to eat detergent.

he is woefully ignorant of internet trends, though.

And he will press the button. Good. First time doing laundry. He feels accomplished.]

Edited 2018-06-24 08:53 (UTC)

[Good job Kenta, feel accomplished.]

You DON'T eat it. That's the thing. Wait, you never saw the thing on the internet where these kids were eating Tide pods as a dare?

.... No? People did that? And put it online?

[This is just....]

Why would you do that? That's just stupid.

Yes people did that, and yes, they put it online. And clearly there is no logic behind it besides being stupid teenagers. I'm pretty sure some ended up in the emergency room.

... Help.

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Kenta Ooshima shared a photo. 06/07 near Viaea Village
Would anyone have any idea of how to make this thing work?