The Trouble with Towels

I had a little Christmas money and a couple weeks ago, JC Penny had towles half off. They were so thick and soft, I couldn't resist. I bought 2 large blue towels for $8 total.

"Ooooh! New towels!" Shawn exclaimed. "Happy birthday to me!"

He was, of course, being slightly sarcastic. He did, however mention how the new towels actually absorbed the water when he dried off after a shower.

"Not like our old towels," he said dryly.

But that got me to thinking...

"Well, we've had those towels since we lived in the apartment; your mom bought them for us, along with some of her hand-me-downs. Ohmigosh! That means the old towels are like.... Nine years old! And the others are even older!" I said.

That's right. I am so cheap that I have never, ever purchased a bath towel. Ever.

About the only good thing about our deterorating towels is that they dry fast which means less money into the driers at the laundrymat. But of course, there's not much left to them except a few cotton molecules. If these towels had elastic, they'd look like any typical guy's underpants.

HA!