I have a very sensitive sense of smell. I can smell things long before other people can, and people routinely act with disbelief when I tell them there is an aroma that they cannot detect. If we leave the towels out for more than a day or two, they start to smell funny to me so I put them in the hamper and take out fresh towels. Because of my nose, there are never any clean towels, or to be more accurate, there are never any towels that smell clean to me. Actually that’s only partially true. It would be entirely true if not for one simple fact: we have children.
The children, from what I can gather, can’t smell anything. I could take a towel, dip it in sulfur, pour six-month old milk on it, then use it to wash an angry skunk, and the kids would still put it right back up on the rack. That is, when and if they’re being scolded for leaving said towel on the floor. Otherwise Satan’s own sulfurous skunk-towel would just stay on the floor in a crumpled wet stinky heap. Why pick them up? We can just buy clean ones right?
When a towel falls on the floor, it should go in the hamper. Why? Because we have dogs. Dogs I might add, who are more tidy and meticulous than my children. If I get out of the shower and grab a towel to dry my face, I should not then become covered in dog hair! I’m honestly surprised that I’ve had to explain this more than once. My kids both get fabulously good grades on their report cards, yet they cannot seem to learn the simplest of skills relating to the proper disposition of towels.
My disgust at the notion of using a towel that’s been on the floor, coupled with the fact that I constantly find towels on the floor, leads me to put all the towels in the hamper. This then leads to the hamper being full of dirty towels that I then need to wash because no one else thinks there’s a towel problem. The way I see it there are two possibilities: either they’re all out to get me, or I’m going quietly mad. I’ve always assumed the later case to be more likely, so I started writing in order that I could go mad less quietly. It seems to be working since I can’t seem to get a moment’s peace these days.
Because I feel the need to police the towels regularly, when I’m home, the towels are out of site, which means I’ve never had the privilege of witnessing Annie’s orgy of towel debauchery. When I’m not home, and the towels haven’t been policed for days, Annie is free to enjoy the decadent pleasures of the towel dance, for the towels lay strewn wherever the children might have tossed them. When Daddy’s away, Annie can get her deep pile freak on since there are dirty towels aplenty.
Annie first sniffed the towel, then put a paw on it, then sniffed more deeply. She sniffed the way a connoisseur of fine wine might enjoy the delicate bouquet of a freshly opened vintage bottle. Actually it was more like a drunken sailor smelling a pretty girl’s hair after returning from six months at sea. Watching the way she enjoyed that towel left me feeling dirty, and somehow, a little bit ashamed for having watched.
I simply had to get pictures.
The girls all swear that she’s done it forever, and when pushed, throw Virginia under the bus in an attempt to save their own skins. Virginia, you might remember, was the lovely woman who cared for Annie before we got her. While Virginia has admitted to seeing Annie standing on her dining room table, in an apparent effort to mimic the behavior of her cats, we have no reason to believe that she would have taught Annie to do such unspeakable things to towels.
For any canine anthropology students out there interested in writing their dissertation on the Abnormal Towel-Lust of the Canine Ferret-Dog, I should point out that Annie only exhibits this behavior on towels that have been used by humans after a shower. She is not impressed by dog towels, dish towels, paper towels, drool towels, beach towels, or even clean towels. For Annie to want to have her way with a towel, it must be used by any one of us, and only after a shower. Only then is it ripe for exploitation.
I think that Annie knows full well that even slightly used towels bug me. I think she’s also realizes that the kids will more than likely put towels back on the rack after they’ve been strewn carelessly on the floor. I further postulate that Annie finds these towels, rubs her face all over them, then watches the children hang them back up. She then waits patiently for me to take a shower so she can hear me scream obscenities as I rub dog hair all over my face when I get out of the shower.
It’s only paranoia if they’re really not out to get you. Right?
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I always wonder when catching up on Annie’s antics, whether or not she and Zulu are somehow related. OR, if she’s just channeling him on that weird bark thing at 10 pm.
Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You’re only Paranoid if you think someone’s out to get you! or so the famous saying goes. In this case, I believe that this is the Dictionary version of the proper definition of Paranoia. GAD you of course realize that this is in fact a very devious plot designed to not only make you mad but seperate you from vast funds that are being used to purchase new towels! A plot that would almost certianly stump the great Sherlock Holmes! Annie and the family have done a masterful job of “Gaslighting” you, and you should be proud of them! Ricky, Oreo, Ethel, and Luci are very jealous, as they have not even begun to “gaslight” me to that level.
I think you sjould buy towels only for her, thanks for sharing these lovely pictures, she is adorable.