Their parents learn the ways of the United States, from cashing a check to running a washing machine.
In this case, homeowners expecting to use an electric oven to cook supper while running a washing machine, all on battery power, would be out of luck.
It was the kind of sheltered, complicated, have-another-cocktail Manhattan upbringing where you never quite learn how to run a washing machine.
It's like saying, 'Instead of getting a manager of the Yankees who knows baseball, let's get a guy who ran a washing machine company,' " a reference to Ward's former job as C.E.O. of Maytag.
They left out a back door, and Mr. Aubry said, "Their kids come to stay with us, and I have to say they learned how to do laundry and run a washing machine at my place".
Running a car wash was probably the most difficult job I ever had in my life.
Elvis Reyes, 36, who works two jobs, driving a truck and running a car wash, had to find a baby sitter for his daughter, Chrisvel, 5, a kindergartner at Dale Avenue School.
Fridman is a self-assured, voluble man, who got his start running a window-washing business.
The things we take for granted — flushing the toilet, running a bath, washing the dishes — all became additional challenges for Mrs. Tillman.
Place the cut shorts into a washing machine and run a standard wash cycle.
