Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for September 26, 2021

When my wife was a girl, her mom told her about the sock monster, who steals socks from the laundry, and for the longest time, she thought that was a real thing.

La-dee-da, Nancy.

She understand one great truth. Take joy from the small victories.

“They’re coming to take me away – ha ha…”

There’s something wrong with her legs.

Sometimes small triumphs are the greatest triumphs.

Oh, Nancy, honey; treat yourself to a couple of laundry garment bags so you can be this happy all the time.

Endure seeking missing socks in the laundry for years and you may yet understand her.

Re Frame 2: Uh – Did Nancy fool around at the Fuse last night?

The lady is having a midlife crisis. Humor her, Frank, or she’ll put starch in your under shorts.

Nancy having a good old time.

Nancy! Don’t you know well enough not to launder the bras in with the sweaters?

She puts bras in the tumble dryer? They won’t last long…!

Simple pleasures are sometimes the best pleasures.

By complex, we mean wacko

These days you take joy when you can get it!

Any loose change or other missing treasures in there though?

Hey, I had similar moment yesterday when I found missing sock in corner of fitted sheet. (How DO you keep things out of the corners?)

Knew about the socks, never heard of the bra hook thing.

Nancy is amazing. She loves the little joys in life♡.

Use safety pins for socks.

I’ve been doing the laundry for more than thirty years. Rare if my wife ever has both socks of a pair in the wash. I’ve never lost one of my socks. She usually has at least one unmatched sock in the wash… Her record was seven. Sometimes the missing socks turn up years later – as a bookmark in an unfinished book or behind the refrigerator. Sometimes it’s better not to ask how something got where it was found.

Front-loader washing machines are the worst. It’s been my experience that they don’t drain properly, there’s usually some standing water somewhere within the seals of the door which leads to mold, stagnant water, and stink. The house I bought came with a front loader some years back, and I replaced it with a top-loader.

Imagine if Nancy was dancing to funk music.

All my socks are the same color. Solves that problem.

Find joy in your life wherever you can! 8^ )

Frank wants to know what she is doing? Your fing laundry, you lazy a$5.

We women understand you honey .YES,YES,YES

One of my minor superpowers: I never lose socks in the laundry.

The “kinda simple” remark is pretty sexist, don’t you think??

It’s Nancy’s laundry Happy Dance.

I think I have that shirt.

Someone help this poor woman . . .

You sure don’t want those mean ole bra hooks snaging anything ! Fer sure.

It’s all fun and games until an underwire slips out and shorts out the heating element…..

WTF is that dancing?

Well … go with complex. She has a complex.

Not a lot of women do laundry in high heeled boots. (I can’t speak for cowboys.)

Let her enjoy the laundry success—it’s rare enough these days!

Socks match, bra’s not hooked all coming out of the dryer is a reason to at least celebrate.

There are readers who do the family laundry, and those who don’t understand this comic.

It’s the little things.

Pro tip: Put bras in lingerie bags, and HOOK THEM UP BEFORE WASHING.

Guys, you can now impress your wives the next time they make you do laundry!

Another pro tip: Use sock clips to keep your socks together in the laundry. You can get them rather easily at Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Helping-Hand-Paired-Washer-Laundry/dp/B00SS1UFT4/ref=asc_df_B00SS1UFT4/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=193136497623&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=9966090986639595009&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9004952&hvtargid=pla-314827111144&psc=1

Nice details on the interior of the dryer, Brian.

Says those who don’t do the laundry and face those frustrations!

The bra hooks thing is real. Many of us have had that experience. Not to mention an underwire escaping and getting itself caught in a hole in the washer tub, which happened to me last week.

Life’s little victories.

Just be glad Nancy’s having such a happy moment over something so simple, Frank. In a few minutes she’ll find out that you made the hall toilet overflow, and the dancing will take a dark turn.

This has apparently inspired her to dance to “Gangnam Style”.

I’m with Nancy here. While some of you may consider me looney (back at you lol) I’m generally a very fact based rational person. But I have a whole box of washed socks, only one each. Must be 30 or so. Mates? Gone to the washing or dryer forever. There has to be a reason, but I have the facts of all my disappeared sock mates. So Nancy you cool with me, Lu and Frank? Go suck an egg.

The way Evans drew Nancy in the second panel is very disturbing.

Never seen her Rock before.

She does her laundry in heels?

I do the same dance when all my socks match coming out of the dryer.

Yes……

I understand her elation. I’m the one that does the laundry.

Nancy seems to be one of those cheesy-looking characters I used to see in cartoons in the 70s. “Scooby Doo”?

Okay, that’s nuts. If you pay $65 for a bra it sure as heck isn’t going in washer. They must not wear underwires in Luann’s household.

Even though she is just a drawing, I can get into what Nancy is saying. Another one would be everything came out of the dryer without a new loose string to cut off

Then there’s always that sock you save for years, hoping to find its mate, till you finally give up on it and turn it into a craft project, only to discover the mate when you shake out a blanket stored for guests or some other thing you rarely use.

Judging from Nancy’s word balloons, I’d say she’s using “colorful” language…and by that, I don’t mean “obscene”…!

“Dryer Straits”

“Notes On Laundry”

“Varsity Snag”

“Same…Sock…MATCH!”

“Pair-adise”

“Oh, Bra-ther!”

The intense heat and vibration of the dryer creates mini-wormholes that sucks away the socks. Somewhere in the galaxy is a planet with mountains of socks.

Luann and Frank are reacting like two people who’ve never done a load of laundry in their lives.

We had a washer that would lose socks, and one time it refused to drain. We found the drain hose plugged tight with socks, baby socks; anything small enough to work its way loose during the spin cycle and out between the edge of the tub and the wall of the washer went that way until too much did on one load. So that’s where the socks go. In the end, we replaced the washer with a Speed Queen model that doesn’t have that gap nor that much space between tub and inner wall but does have more room for a larger load instead. No more lost socks.

Time to celebrate.

Use front closure – less likely to snag things.

There are worse things than a Wacko Mom.

Kudos to an artist who knows the difference between wacko and whack! Wild applause!

Frank, she did marry you, if I was you I’d go with wac…complex.

She is a woman who finds great pleasure in simple things – such as Frank and their daughter.

I know how she feels about the socks. Seriously!

In addition to lingerie bags for the bras, there are also lingerie bags for socks. After losing socks in my new ‘senior housing’ laundry room, I invested in those bags. You can use them in the dryer, too. Of course, the contents of the sock bag all shift to one end, so the socks aren’t dry. But at least I still have them…

Regardless of which, you are never going to be able to figure her out.

Hey, Lesser DeGroots! Don’t put Matriarch Nancy down because she is taking a moment to celebrate in a youthful way one of Life’s Little Triumphs (or two, with the bra-hooks thing). She has earned her moment!

Low probability good events should be celebrated.

Get down, Nancy!

Tip: put your bras into a mesh bag; then their hooks can’t snag anything, and the straps can’t get caught on the impeller.

Ah yes. A reminder that we are coming into sweater season. Those darn bra hooks.

Frank’s getting lucky tonight.

All the socks matched? I didn’t know this was a sci-fi comic strip!

Oh my gawwww. Am I the only one who thinks, if this makes you so happy, you need to get a life?