# So I had an opportunity to wash my slippers

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 6, 2020, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-had-an-opportunity-to-wash-my-slippers/919955 "2020-09-06T18:25:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-had-an-opportunity-to-wash-my-slippers/919955/1 "2020-09-06T18:25:45Z")

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I’m particular about the things I can wash together. My personal “ick” is throw rugs: they collect until I have a load. I _certainly_ don’t wash them with underwear or kitchen towels.

A perfect ride-along item with throw rugs are my slippers. I pretty much live in them all the time \<glares at @Beckdawrek\> to protect my feet. I had an opportunity arise, so I collected all my slippers from the bottom of the laundry bashet.

Voila! Clean slippers! I pull them out of the dryer and line them up.

Huh?

I line them up again.

In typical VOW fashion, I have **TWO** left slippers and **FOUR** right slippers…

~VOW

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**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-had-an-opportunity-to-wash-my-slippers/919955/2 "2020-09-06T21:19:29Z")

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Do the colors/styles at least match? 😉

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**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-had-an-opportunity-to-wash-my-slippers/919955/3 "2020-09-06T22:00:08Z")

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Are they at least some of the same slippers you started out with?

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**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-had-an-opportunity-to-wash-my-slippers/919955/4 "2020-09-06T22:44:55Z")

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All the same style and color…

~VOW

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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-had-an-opportunity-to-wash-my-slippers/919955/5 "2020-09-07T00:58:19Z")

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You clearly can’t dance with 2 left feet.😁

I caught that little remark. I’m doing better. I have cheap flip-flops I wear downstairs.  
I cannot tolerate them on carpeting upstairs.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-had-an-opportunity-to-wash-my-slippers/919955/6 "2020-09-07T08:16:32Z")

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Have we established that you don’t have twice as many right feet as left?

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**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-had-an-opportunity-to-wash-my-slippers/919955/7 "2020-09-07T13:02:05Z")

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@panache45

While I certainly _dance_ like I have too many feet, I am equipped with the standard allocation of two: one right, one left.

I think.

Yes. Whew!

~VOW

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**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-had-an-opportunity-to-wash-my-slippers/919955/8 "2020-09-07T18:34:09Z")

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Wait a minute, are you sure a couple slippers didn’t just get turned inside-out?