do you like to stare into washing machines

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do you?

i did as a youngster, yes..
the red one always falls the same

I don't go to laundromats much anymore, so the opportunity doesn't often come up.

I recall that the main character in "Contact" (the book by Carl Sagan), mentioned doing that, to "try to see the patterns in the chaos." Unfortunately, the reporter who saw her doing that used it as evidence that she was nuts.

I like to stare at my cat as he stares into the washing machine

I did as a child, but not anymore.

I don't really get the chance to; my mom does the laundry and I'm usually not in the same room when she does it.
Whenever I get the chance, though, it's nice.

yes. even still. it makes me feel a little dizzy and hypnotized.

I have a top loader ._. I suck.

nononononononono no!

Not washing machines, but driers. I find it so fascinating I have sometimes put in extra quarters just to keep watching.

I find myself contemplating the relative velocities of the various articles, wondering how the fabric density influences the shapes the make, trying to correlate the periodicities (is the phase of this sock always 90 degrees to that of that blue shirt? Will they start to synchronize?)

I have a top loader and I only look into it to see why it's going ka-THUNKeta-THUNKeta and dancing around the garage.

In soviet russia washing machine stares into you!

As a child yes. But not now.

As a child yes. But not now.

Edit: Double post fail.

I never did as a kid because there were no windows on the machines but now that I have one with a window? Yes, I'll watch for about 10 minutes *shrugs* Not every time....maybe 2/3 of the time.

I never knew this existed.

I may have once....but I don't know why I would when I could be doing something else but....I can see why people may have done that.