Microbiology

[caddyman]

Pah.

I am late in the office again. I ironed a shirt last night in readiness for this morning (as one does) but this morning I had to iron a fresh one. The shirt I ironed last night had gone stale over night and was unwearable. This is a lesson in the mechanics of laundering clothes in tepid water when the boiler is on the blink. Firstly it wasn't quite as clean as I had thought and secondly it took forever to dry. It seems that the extra drying time had been enough for a touch of mill dew which was reactivated by the steam from the iron and which spent the night adding its own distinct contribution to the shirt's bouquet. Shirts are not supposed to have bouquets.

So I shall have to re-launder that shirt and check all the other laundry that was done at the same time. If it is anything like the shirt I could be hijacked by it - it was the heat and the moisture from the iron that revivified whatever it was, so it may well be unnoticeable until it is too late to change.

Grumble.

I may just re-launder everything, annoying as it is. Luckily I have enough clean clothes to see me through either way. It's just another aggravation, is all.

I read somewhere recently, The Times probably, that someone somewhere had hit upon the idea of cheese - principally Stilton - based deodorant. I may even have blogged it at the time. My advice to them is, "Don't do it" and if they do anyway, my advice to you is to avoid it like the plague. If it is one tenth as potent as the bacteria that screwed over my supposedly clean shirt, it will be a nightmare.

Comments

[jfs.livejournal.com]

Good icon :-)

[queenortart.livejournal.com]

I am reminded of a short story in the Pan book of Horror which I read aged about 10 where the African traveller is sold drip dry non iron shirts and then gets a beetle lava under his skin which eats him because his shirts are no longer ironed to kill the eggs.

I had nightmares for weeks.

Same book had the man who had a spider lay eggs in his brain story.

Shudder.

[ellefurtle.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, the smell of laundry that hasn't quite dried right - one of my top bad smells. Not in the same league as dead-and-turning-liquid things, sour milk, unwashed person or rotten fish, but it's there.
I'd re-do the lot just in case. You always smell good (under the smoke - hehe), so people will notice if you have odd shirt smell.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I found the picture last night and did the icon thing on it straight away.

I didn't expect to find such an immediate use for it, though!

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I *think* the rest is OK. The shirt is of comparatively heavy material and always takes longer to dry. It was the batch you folded up, so your bloodhound nose would have spotted it if everything else was manky.

[ellefurtle.livejournal.com]

folded up...such a generous term for 'quickly stacked to one side' *giggles*

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

What a little traitor you are, Ms Furtle!

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

Lordy! May I suggest P.G.Wodehouse, Tom Clancy and blues history books? Still, working with some of the idiots here gets me feeling downright creepy.

[averylaterabbit.livejournal.com]

"the idea of cheese - principally Stilton - based deodorant."

It might be better for you than Titanium which stays in your body.