Snapchat is a wonderful place, because it lets you into the minds of your favorite athletes and celebrities during the most mundane portions of their lives. It’s how we got to know how much Team USA loves Vanessa Carlton. And it’s how we know Serena Williams sometimes has trouble doing laundry.
Serena Williams’ Snapchat laundry adventure includes biting through a bag of detergent
On Monday, days before she heads out to Rio, Williams wanted to wash her blanket, saying “I don’t wanna travel with a dirty blankie,” thus beginning this short film in which Williams tries to figure out a washing machine.
(Audio warning: Serena makes a loud noise in the video because she wanted to scare a friend.)
On the one hand, I totally empathize with Williams here. I used to not know how to do laundry, and for the most part, there are a lot of things I still don’t know about laundry. I know the basics: You don’t mix the white clothes with the color clothes; the laundry detergent goes in one tray, the fabric softener goes in another; Snuggle has the best mascot on its products.
What I don’t know: When to use bleach, what the difference between “heavy duty” and “perm press” is, what kind of stuff I need to use to get rid of the spaghetti stain on my beloved Sufjan Stevens shirt. These are all things you can likely look up on Google, I’m just too lazy to do it. And if Serena Williams doesn’t feel like doing that, then I don’t have to either.
Here’s where she loses me, though: She bit through the bag of detergent pods. Not content with putting her phone down, she used her teeth like a knife to get to those laundry cleaning bad boys.
There is a zipper you can open.
In her defense, she said she tried to open the bag using the zipper, but it wouldn’t open. I’m guessing this was a defective zipper, which tends to happen. For all intents and purposes, bag zippers are a valuable feature. How else are you going to keep your bag of chips secure from the elements?
Still, she bit through the bag, and now the bag looks so out of place.
But you know what? I’m gonna put the onus on Tide here. Y’all gave Serena a defective bag. If the zipper worked like it was supposed to, she wouldn’t have had to use her teeth. But also, a part of me thinks Serena knew biting through a bag of detergent pods would be more entertaining than putting her phone down and cutting the bag with scissors like a normal person.
I’ve learned a lot about Serena Williams through this Snapchat story. I may have even learned something about myself.
