A what?
That’s right--first no idea what it is, but I hear it making a lot of noise all the time.
Then one day, I put my curiosity to use, and stop to check it out.
It’s a little square box called a Suitmate—and wow, cool, it's a mini clothes dryer that fits exactly one bathing suit. Cute!
Who would’ve thought…you put your wet bathing suit in, hold down the lid, and in seconds it spins it dry.
No more going home with a gym bag with wet laundry—Yeah, I’m liking this.
Well, there is only one problem--it doesn’t just stop spinning by itself when you lift the lid.
So you end up scrunching up your fingers, putting them in the spinning basket, and pulling out the suit—trying to make sure not to get your hand spun out of whack.
There has got to be a better way, right?
Well last night, this guy is at the machine spinning his suit dry.
He sees me waiting off to the side—I don’t rush him or anything.
So when he’s done, he motions me over to the machine.
He leans in and goes to me like he’s about to tell me this big, big secret.
He says, “You…you know how to make this machine stop...stop spinning?
I look up at him I suppose with a look like so many before me--communicating that I had no idea there was a way to make it stop
He nods in understanding and give me this smirk--ear to ear.
He says in this broken English, “You don’t put your hand in the spinner and pull it out (motioning this dangerous way). No! “
Then he points to this little cylindrical object jutting out the top of the machine on either side (it looks like something that just holds the lid in place).
He looks at me intently, and I knew this guy is getting ready now to tell me something he considers very important—something he wouldn’t just tell anyone.
Suddenly, he lunges and grabs the cylinder on the machine and pulls--and almost like magic it stops spinning, just like that!
He looks at me again and nods like he just told me the secret to life itself.
This whole scene was so surreal and really funny, but you know what—it works.
Some things it’s good just to be told--this is how you do it baby. ;-)