We’ve all faced an annoying problem and got stubborn about it.
Sometimes, it can feel like life itself is against you. Which only makes you more adamant to fix whatever issue you’re dealing with – no matter what it takes.
One mom was certainly feeling determined when the laundry room doorknob broke and she couldn’t get in.
What would most people do in that situation? Depending on your level of DIY expertise, you’d probably get out some tools, break the door down, or simply accept that you can never do laundry again.
But Cheryl Wenzel, a mom from Muskego, WI, refused to be beaten by something as silly as a door that wouldn’t open.
So what did she do? She went down the laundry chute, of course.
A series of photos, posted on Facebook by Cheryl’s son, Jon, document the events as they happen. He explained:
“So the doorknob on our laundry room broke on Sunday and we couldn’t get the door open. We were left with one option to get in: the laundry chute”
This isn’t your typical Saturday afternoon watching TV, oh no. Cheryl’s on a mission, and it involves a rope and a harness.
What Cheryl does next could definitely be the beginning of a very claustrophobic mistake.
Let’s just put this into perspective. The average width of a laundry chute is 12 inches. The average width of an American woman’s shoulders, on the other hand, is 14.4 inches.
While Cheryl somehow managed to squeeze into the opening of the laundry chute, there were no guarantees that it wouldn’t suddenly get a bit tighter during her descent.
We can only imagine how it’d feel being slowly lowered down an enclosed space, like Santa trying to get down a particularly tight chimney.
One thing’s for certain – Cheryl must have really wanted to get back to doing the laundry.
This really is something you’d expect to see on a “places people shouldn’t have gone but went anyway” video.
In fact, you’d almost expect the last photos in the series to show a fire crew busting through the walls of Cheryl’s home, before carefully sliding her out from her wedged-in position.
Maybe Cheryl was secretly hoping she’d get to play the damsel in distress, but not this time.
Instead, the last photo shows Cheryl grinning elatedly as she stands behind the open door in the laundry room, one arm in the air as if to say “ta-daa!”.
What’s interesting is that her shirt is the kind that shows up sweat stains really bad, and if we were her, we’d have a huge damp patch across the armpits.
But Cheryl’s armpits are dry, as if high-anxiety situations like scaling a laundry chute are just an everyday occurrence for her. Who knows; maybe they are.
Jon’s post is over a year old, but it’s still getting attention today.
It has 37k reactions to this date, and 18,000 people have commented, most tagging their friends, others expressing their horror that Cheryl would willingly squeeze through an enclosed space in the name of laundry.
As one person wrote, “This whole post gives me anxiety”. Us too!
What we don’t know is how expertly Cheryl managed to land – but we’d say her harness helped her out a lot.
If she’d attempted to go down the chute sans harness, she probably would have ended up landing like the person in the video below. Ouch – that’s got to have hurt!
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