I’ve no chest-of-drawers or dresser. Underwear & socks just remain piled in one of 2 laundry baskets.
After doing a load, one basket sits on the floor in front of the dryer for a couple days, then at some point I bring it into my office, dump it into the other basket (sits on a stool next to the door), then I pick up the couple pairs of dirty underwear, socks, t-shirts off the floor of the closet, put them in the just-emptied basket, and shove it into the closet. It’s not a good system, but it’s low-friction. To me there’s zero practical value spending one minute pairing up socks & folding them, much less the underwear, unless they’re to be arranged in a display case like a chest-of-drawers or dresser, which I do not have. The only things that get any time and care out of the dryer are outer clothes where wrinkles are visible to others. T-shirts, jeans, or shorts.
Well, there was one pair of shorts in the last load. I folded them, then set them atop the pile of socks & underwear. I’d put them up on a high shelf in the closet later – surely we’re done with shorts for this year, by now. But when I was preparing to dump the socks & underwear from basket to basket, I removed the folded shorts and set them on my office chair to grab and store a moment later. That’s when I saw it. A wasp or hornet (I’m not good at identifying them, but it wasn’t a honey bee nor bumble bee, it was smooth, shiny, black & yellow & stingy) was clinging to the shorts. WHY it had crawled between shorts and underwear in the first place, I cannot begin to fathom. But in the cool, pre-dawn basement, it was nearly motionless.
Took the shorts over to the patio door, opened it, flicked ’em outside.
But this has now unlocked a new fear – of being stung in the balls.
How far into autumn/winter will it be before the risk of stingy fuckers hiding in my underwear basket has returned to effectively zero?
And before you blame this on my careless lack of drawer-based furnishings, various flying stingy fuckers have been known to build entire nests inside dressers, closets, wardrobes, etc.
