Laundry Day

Hoods & I went to the Laundromat to do laundry today because we figured it would save time considering there are only three machines in our building and there was already a line for all of them. We were little prepared for the vicious world of the local Laundromat; full of aggressive men & women all vying for washers, dryers, and laundry baskets to transport clothes betwixt the two. We also suffered some sticker shock when we saw that the smallest washers are $3.00 a load all the way up to $5.00 a load for the jumbo ones. Since we had already packed up all the laundry and dragged it out to the car and drove down the block and found parking and schlepped the laundry from the parking lot to the laundromat, we decided to just give it a shot anyway, rather than reverse the process with still-dirty clothing, linen, towels and tablecloths. So we spent three hours in the melee of locals jealously guarding machines so they could be refilled when the spin cycle finished instead of someone else inserting their own dirty laundry into them.
It was quite an ordeal to say the least and it reminds us why we usually do laundry here in the building, which - even with all its inconveniences - is better than the alternative. Maybe next time we have so much laundry to do we'll drop it off and let them do it for us. We worked out the math and it seems to be cheaper that way.