From today’s Seattle Times Bureau launders money to make sure it’ll last :
Andrew Wilson throws his own special load of laundry into the wash: eight white cotton terry towels, 2-1/3 ounces of powdered laundry detergent — and 25 crisp U.S. greenbacks.
Wash, rinse and spin. When the load is done, it’s not the towels he goes for first.
Wilson is a chemist at a U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing lab that checks how dollar bills survive the torture of everyday life — whether bucks are spun in a washing machine or dumped in a crumpled mass into an overstuffed handbag.
I didn’t know that the government paid people to do the laundry. Hey, maybe I could get paid for stuffing towels and dollar bills into the washing machine myself! And who better than a mom to do durability tests? Makes me wonder why they haven’t outsourced this work yet: I could do it from home. I’m sure they wouldn’t mind if I tossed in a few dirty shirts and jeans to make the experiment more authentic. Just think, while water rushes through the washing machine and the clothes bounce around inside the dryer, I could be making money. I could be working for salary instead of working for sanity. Wow.
So now I’ll rewrite my resume:
Laundry Manager for Leung Family Corporation, Bainbridge Island, WA 1995 to present
Think I could get a job?!
