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I've needed to do laundry for several days now. Each day I scoop up all the towels in the bathroom and stuff 'em into the bag - all determination and best intentions - then drag one back out when I wake up the next day after AGAIN not having done the laundry and realize that I need to take a shower and must get dry somehow.

All because I hate going to the laundromat and I try to avoid at all costs the potential for lurky stares.

The laundromat is, in theory, an interesting place. It should be fodder for observation and creativity... But mostly, most of the time - when I sit there alone at night patiently awaiting the sigh of a finished machine, warm and oddly numbed by the droning hum of the dryers and the yellow lights and the yellowed floors and the floating blue bits of hovering lint and wonder how the guy with the greasy grey puffy coat and the bike planted against the folding table in front of him got his laundry here on a bike... and why that guy over there just doesn't seem at all to be doing any laundry - it's just creepiness.

But okay. Okay. I'm going. Now. See me going? I'm going. Bye.


M

Comments

Anonymous said…
Did you go? Did you really finally go?;) :) :P

Z
9:15 am
mayim said…
I DID!!! (and they were BOTH there!)

M
9:51 am
Kristiana said…
I dig reading your blog and hope 2005 is a good year for content! Happy New Year!! Dont forget to eat black eyed peas today for good luck!

Much love and respect,
Asia
11:13 am
RichardKS said…
So... you think bike man and no-wash man are opportunistic panty sniffers? Everyone's gotta have a hobby... there are probably people who get jobs doing service washes because they want to sniff panties. In fact, I think I might just apply. I mean, to take it to another degree of grossness, if they went in the wash immediately afterwards, it wouldn't even matter if they acquired some extra stains first, right?
10:51 am
mayim said…
Oyyy..... !
11:22 am
Murph said…
I always liked going to the laundromat. I see some of those folks and I can't help but feel normal and well adjusted;)
1:15 am
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