Somebody threw the towel in.
A-flat minor (or a broken piano)
Arkansas
Namaste.
A timely manor.
A washing machine only takes one load at a time.
If I dump a load in a washing machine it doesn't follow me around for the next few weeks.
Towels
A woman on a tumble dryer! (Bet you thought I was gonna say 'a towel', didn't you, silly redditors)