The Laundromat

I suppose that I finally have good news.  I found out today that my furniture will be here on Friday.  10 days late!  Of course...it was supposed to be here by tomorrow...but...they changed it again.  However, Friday is a confirmed day so I hope that they do show up...more for their sake than mine.

There have been many inconviences created by this lack of furniture.  I think one of the worst is sleeping on the air mattress every night.  At least I have it though.  The other major inconvience came today.  I have been putting off doing laundry because I had hoped that my furniture would arrive tomorrow.  Then I could just use my own washer and dryer.  However, since they aren't coming until Friday I could wait no longer.  I brought clothes...but the majority were packed.  My only choice was to find a laundromat. 

I absolutly abhor using public washers and dryers.  I hate lugging my things there, hate having to wait, and hate having to lug everything back upstairs.  College was my first experience with public laundry.  The dorms were one thing...at least it was right down the hall.  But then when Carole and I moved to an apartment we had to walk quite a ways to do our laundry.  My first purchase after college was a top of the line Maytag Neptune washer and dryer.  Now that I was going to have a real job and my own apartment I refused to walk to do my laundry ever again.  I love my washer and dryer and I was reminded of that this evening. 

It tooke me 3 hours to do 3 tubs of laundry.  That is crazy.  The washing was the fast part.  There were plenty of free washers...but all the dryers were taken.  It appeared to me that everyone splits up their wash into small loads for the dryers...hoping that they will dry faster.  This creates a problem though...there is a lack of dryers...so I had to wait, and wait, and wait.  Finally I was able to get a dryer.  By this point I was tired of being in the laundromat.  It was clean enough I suppose...but the people there were less than desirous.  I suppose I could have ridden around town looking for another one...but that would have taken even more time.  The thing that bothered me the most was that people were allowed to smoke in the building.  Smoke where my clean laundry is!  I don't want my clean clothes smelling like smoke!  So...as soon as my clothes were even a little dry I decided to cut my losses and leave.  So now...the clothes that still need to dry a little are spread around the apartment...drying.

I hope that I don't have to return to public laudry anytime in the near future!