What do you use when washing your clothes?

I typically thought a person was suppose to use some sort of detergent. Well, today, I was proved wrong. I put the detergent into the washer, the washer did have a funny odor, but thought someone had just been washing something smelly before me, nothing to worry about. Then I put in my clothes, added change to the machine and closed the lid. A nice humming began telling me that, yes, my clothes would come out clean.

I then came back to the laundry room to move the wash to the dryer. A normal occurance when doing laundry. I opened the lid, started sorting through which clothes had to be laid out and which could go into the dryer, when my hand hit something, well, rather a bit hard. Wondering what piece of clothing that could be, I lifted a group of shirts up to find that a dead frog had joined my wash. Yes, I am deadly serious. I found a dead frog in the washer with what I had assumed were my clean clothes. Oh, how wrong I was. Shrieking I trying to figure out a way to get the frog that I had dropped back into the washer, when I had dropped the rest of the clothes I was holding, out of there. Finally, I decided to use the sullied clothing to toss the unfortunate frog into the trash can by flinging it. It flung. And then it caught, on the side of the trash can. It's stiff little arm clinging to the side as though it were alive. Frozen in motion. I shrieked again for good measure, went got some more soap, filled another washer with water and put my frog washed clothes in the new washer. They came out much better having been washed a second time and when I went to remove them from the washer to the dryer, there were no dead frogs to deal with.

Lesson for today, look into the washer before trying to fill it with laundry. And now I know, sort of, what it felt like to be an ancient Egyptian.