Specifically, dish towels.

Dear manufacturers, I'm delighted that you make dish towels in an astonishing variety of sizes, shapes, and colors. You have genuinely got a towel for every decor.

However, I'd like you to consider the following: if the towels you manufacture have roughly the absorbency of a hockey puck, one of us has misunderstood the principal purpose of a towel.

I humbly submit that it is not me.

Comments:

You're assuming that people sell things in order to provide function. They don't. See Pet Rocks.

Posted by John Cowan on 21 Oct 2011 @ 05:27pm UTC #

Where are the "+1" / "like" / "agree" / "I second that" buttons?

Posted by Derek Read on 21 Oct 2011 @ 07:35pm UTC #

Try going to a restaurant supply store. They'll probably be very rough, and only come in white, but the towels you buy there will probably be very functional.

Buy a dozen or so and just rotate through them, as they'll probably start replacing things like trivets, hot pads, and oven mitts.

Posted by David Magda on 21 Oct 2011 @ 11:29pm UTC #
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