Mama would not be having this.

Now the white towels were a pale pink.

Now the towels were pink and I was left pondering how someone (a Southerner, no less!)

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would fail to see that a red towel in with a load of whites just might be a problem.

As an adult, I more or less followed the same instructions and separated the colors.

The tweetby @ZachSilberberg read: “yall wanna talk about generational divides?

i dont know anyone under 40 who separates laundry into lights and darks.”

In case you think Silberberg is alone in this laundry mania, over 420,000 people liked the tweet.

Another Twitter user jumped into the conversation with a poll.

Over 48 percent responded no.

Somewhere, my mother is shuddering in horror.