Haha, I just did. I didn't have anything to add, so we'll just leave it as option B as an addendum to yours.
We got caught up in some of the prepper stuff for Y2K. Yeah, goofy, but there you have it. Included in our prep were two washing machines. One was the small barrel, kind of like a mini version of yours.

The other was a pretty cool stainless steel basin with a lever that would agitate the clothes and included an awesome ringer. We never used it, but it was super cool in the pictures. It looked something like this.