How long has it been, my possums?! Have we all been studying, taking notes and swatting? Or is it swotting. I always get it wrong.

Let us just dive straight in, shall we?

1. How did Tasmiya’s set of  freshly laundered (or so she thought) clothing manage to be covered in fluffy white fluffity FLUFF that rendered all the black clothing a FLUFFY GREY?

a) As per usual, she forgot to check the boys’ pockets for snotty tissues

b) Her husband accidentally forgot to check his pockets for important receipts, group certificates and bills

c) She scooped up the pile of dirty clothes and along with the pile, inadvertently grabbed and machine washed a beautiful pocket sized recipe book from which she has yet to try any recipes

d) all of the above

2. Why does every inch of Tasmiya’s house have wet and damp clothing draped across it?

a) She is entirely too lazy to walk out of the house to hang them on the line

b) It’s been raining for the past 3 days and her dryer is kaput

c) She likes pretending she lives in a Chinese Laundromat a la all those P-unC  70′s movies

d) all of the above

3. How often does Tasmiya iron the clothing

a) iron?

b)what?

c) you’re joking, right?

d) all of the above

4. Which word(s) adequately describe(s) Tasmiya’s feelings about laundry, particularly folding and putting clothes away

a) ambivalent

b) utter hatred

c) intense enjoyment

d) fear

5. How did Tasmiya’s children look when they left for school this morning?

a) One with an oil stain the size of Africa on his shirt and a jumper with the elbow covered in grease from a car, the other with shorts with glue stuck all over them.

b) Their clothes were stiffly starched, not a thread out of place and every item of clothing in pristine condition

c) Like they slept in their clothes

d) a and c only

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