熨烫是一个特别浪费的时间。您会花20分钟的时间将一件衬衫的前后按下，喷洒淀粉并使折痕尖锐，但是一旦房子的那个人戴上了淀粉，它就会弯曲肘部，就会皱纹。另外，您甚至看不到危险的衬衫是否是在他的西装外套下熨烫的。
(Ironing was a particularly galling waste of time. You'd spend twenty minutes pressing one shirt front and back, spraying starch and getting the creases sharp, but once the man of the house put it on, it would wrinkle as soon as he bent an elbow; plus, you couldn't even see whether the danged shirt was ironed or not under his suit coat.)