Doghouse

I left a gel pen in my pants pocket a couple of days ago, apparently.

In the washer and dryer, it ruined three pair of my pants, one of my shirts, a pair of my son's pants, and several socks.

I am in the doghouse, especially as this required my wife to clean out the dryer with some bleach-based substance.

Here is the sensitive question: Of course, it is the primary responsibility of the wearer to make sure that his or her pockets are empty when putting their clothes with the dirty clothes for the laundry. But isn't there some responsibility for the person doing the laundry to make sure there are no foreign objects in pockets?

I, of course, did not make this argument at the time. It would not have been wise.