Ignorant of entropy

[sawyl]

After I mentioned that I needed to take some of my clothes to the dry cleaners, the person I was talking to confessed that they'd never done their own laundry. I wondered how they'd managed to survive university. It turned out they'd relied on maternal visits every two weeks to keep them in clean clothes. But the funniest bit was that they mentioned that they didn't even realise that they needed to wash their bed linen and, because the madre didn't realise that it was being done, it went unwashed for most of their first year...