Noisy Dryer

 

Look carefully at the picture below and see if you can figure out what is going on (besides me being crazy).  Hint: I went canoeing last Friday.  So, if you haven’t guessed by now, I am drying my wet sneakers.  I tried putting them on the porch, but the constant rain made them wetter than when I had set them out!  I set them under the vent inside the house, but after a week, they were still damp.  In the clothes dryer, they kept banging against the door, bumping it open, and turning off the dryer.  It was as if they wanted to stay wet.  I tried pushing a clothes basket against the door, but it was no match for flying shoes.  A dining room chair did a little better, but the tumbling shoes eventually won out.  My board/chord worked perfectly.  I have heard it said that necessity is the mother of invention.  How true.  Solomon said in Ecclesiastes 1:9, “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”  I wonder how Solomon would have solved my problem?  That is, if he had sneakers … and a clothes dryer … and electricity … and …