Lightning posting: Downy fabric softener commercial on tv, heard out of the corner of my ear:
It brings mice into your laundry
I contemplated the other indoor plagues I have suffered here in Palo Alto: houseflies, clothes moths, Argentine ants. No cockroaches. Only the occasional silverfish or centipede. Rats and squirrels yearning to get indoors, but without success. No mice.
And now a fabric softener could bring mice upon me.
Ah, then it’s a damn good thing I don’t use fabric softener, Downy or any other.
Oh. Apparently what Downy is said to do is …
It breathes life into your laundry
Better than mice, but still unsettling. The prospect of my sweaty skivvies and socks brought to life and lurching about the household unnerves me.