The Public Laundromat
Posted by Andrew | Filed under General
You know what’s great about public laundromats? They aren’t in your home. I am sitting here in a public laundry to the east of downtown Salt Lake City and I am actually forced to do something productive such as update my continually neglected blog here. After this, I may read a book or do some of the homework I need done before classes on Tuesday.
The reason for this is that I don’t have my TV, I don’t have my comfy office chair, all I have are a bunch of silver washers built in Sweden by a company I have never heard of to watch. And after watching them for more than two minutes, you will become very bored and want to do something else. After I finish writing this pointless post, I will probably read my new book, Inventory, by the writers of the A.V. Club.
The other thing is that the rules at the public laundromat are all posted clearly on each washer and dryer. Rules such as how to insert detergent and bleach and how to properly treat the machines. When you are in a situation with roommates and a landlord who owns the machines and doesn’t bother to go over the rules with you, you are just guessing, and eventually, your security deposit disappears.
The other reason Laundromats are great is that a person like me isn’t responsible enough to own something like a washing machine or a dryer. And when you live alone, thousands of dollars for such machines just doesn’t seem economical, when you consider the water and electricity that they use and you will have to pay for. The laundromat is $1.75 a load in the washer, and another dollar or so to dry them. If you only need to do a load every week, that’s about $140 to $150 a year. Imagine how much you would be spending in interest on the credit card you would have to had put the machines on.
Now, I must finish this up, both the machines I’m using are one cycle away from finishing. That’s right, I can use two machines at once here.
