Dying the dryer (say that 10 times fast)

On Friday, I decided it was time to finally use one of the free jeans coupons that I've had sitting around since Lacey's pants party over the summer. I went to the Gap, found an awesome pair of Curvy jeans, and was on my way.

I arrived home and began cutting off the tags when I saw a tag instructing me to flip my jeans inside out and wash them before wearing them to avoid the fabric bleeding all over everything. Because the jeans are super dark, and mostly because we have a washer/dryer in the apartment, I obliged.

I opened the dryer to take out my jeans and saw that the dryer sheets had turned blue, and thought, "Damn, these are some bloody jeans." And as I reached in to take them out, another thought struck me:

"Hey....has the inside of our dryer always been blue?"

The blueness all over the inside of the dryer was incredibly even, and looked quite pretty. It didn't come off on my finger and for about 10 minutes I legitimately thought the dryer had always been blue. Until I stopped being a moron and realized that I JUST DYED THE DRYER BLUE.

Did you hear me? I DYED MY FUCKING DRYER BLUE. Or should I say, my roommate's dryer. I flipped out to Crapface on Gchat the entire time, and she interspersed her laughter with some attempts at helpful comments that ranged from "Try wetting some towels and drying them to see if the blue comes out" to "Your roommate probably won't notice." (My response: "Well...I noticed.") Crapface also suggested googling it to see if anyone on the great internet had any suggestions, and lo and behold it took me at least 5 different google attempts to find anything related because THIS IS NOT NORMAL.

I was rather worked up about the whole thing because even though a blue dryer doesn't really affect anyone, I felt pretty awful because if my roommate wanted a blue dryer instead of a white one, she would have purchased it that way. And this is TOTALLY TYPICAL of something that would happen to me, so I couldn't help but laugh because even though it sort of sucked, I would much rather have this than a "real" problem. Like the other day when I couldn't decide whether to bring my Little Mermaid costume or my slutty police officer costume to Mardi Gras and I was all "GOD WHY IS MY LIFE SO FULL OF HARD DECISIONS!?!"

Anyway, I had to leave the house before the issue was resolved, which DRIVES ME ABSOLUTELY NUTS because I cannot stand to leave when I'm in the middle of anything, but my iPod was acting up and I had an appointment with a genius and there was no way I was about to leave on a 9 day trip without a fully functioning iPod.

I came back home and opened the dryer to see the results of the wet towel experiment, and...the dryer was white again. So I did not have to explain to my roommate how I managed to dye her dryer. Though..that would have been hilarious.

And hey, new jeans! Always exciting.