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  • #16
    I hate the laundromat.

    We live in apartment building whose communal washers and dryers are utterly disgusting, so we go to the laundromat nearby. There are two in town, actually, but one is nicer, cleaner, and cheaper than the other, so that's the one we frequent.

    Well, I don't go anymore, my Mom takes her boyfriend K, who lives with us, along with her now. Which I am glad about. Because there is one guy who always goes there who is either mentally ill or a complete pervert - or both.

    Mentally ill I am fine with. My aunt has serious mental health problems, and I love her. I don't think any less of her for them. But this guy... I'm not even sure that's what's wrong with him. He'[s just sorta... weird.

    For instance, when I used to see him, he would always stare at me and my Mom, and lift up his shirt to show off his hairy beer belly every time he passed us. And then one day... One day he really freaked me out.

    To set the scene - My Mom and I are sort of far apart inside the laundromat, having just moved some clothes into the dryers, so I have to tell her kinda loudly that I'm going to the bathroom. I go in and do my business, and I have such a creepy bad feeling already that I do it all as quickly as I can. As soon as I step away from the toilet I turn around to flush, looking out the window that is right above the toilet-

    And I see that guy walk slowly past, staring directly in the window at me the whole time.

    I tried, at the time, to convince myself it wasn't on purpose, but he was looking in the window the entire time he passed by. I'm pretty sure he did it deliberately. I am so glad I obeyed my gut and hurried as much as I did.

    After I washed my hands I raced out of the bathroom to tell my Mom, and she was pretty pissed off about it. We avoided him the rest of the day (though he was getting much closer to us after that, when he usually stayed a pretty comfortable distance away - he was within easy touching distance of my Mom when we were getting things in the car to go home). I haven't been back much since then. Mom started taking K with her instead, after that.

    And now that she is taking her boyfriend along with her, she has no further El-Creep-O stories to tell me. I suspect he doesn't come around as much.

    And that, my friends, is what soured me on the laundromat.

    Though the entitlement wh*res who take up every available dryer by spreading out their loads into a few items of clothing in each one did not help. *lol*

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    • #17
      [QUOTE=NightWatch;570037]If the dryers are big enough, it would make sense. Between me and the bf we manage 3 loads a week, but we can throw all 3 loads into one dryer and it's still no where near half-full.



      Oh i wish the laundry mat I go to was like that. One load of wash needs its own dryer and sometimes if I pack it in there it needs two dryers.

      I did my laundry today and when I get there 4 people were just getting done with the wash cycle and took up all the dryers.

      When I was putting in my quarters a lady walked in with about 10 loads of laundry so I get there just in time

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      • #18
        Just found out about it yesterday from a fellow carrier but there is a NICE laundry spot near campus that just opened. Equal number of dryers to washers with over sized dryers for the over sized washers. You HAVE to buy tokens for both machines up at the counter and the tokens can only be used in the machines you buy it for. IE can't use a small washer token in a large washer and vice versa.

        THey have couches set up with three tv's in three corners and a small juice snack bar in the other corner. There is a drop off site for dry clean and drop off laundry that is done off site. The best part however, The VERY best part? You HAVE to have a local student ID to enter. Police, Firemen, Postal, UPS, and FedEx get to enter without needing such id. But we would need to be current students to use the facilities.

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        • #19
          The apartment I used to live in was so old that it did not have connections in the apartments themselves, and the laundry room left a LOT to be desired. I would take my stuff out to the laundromat until I got fed up and bought a w/d set that I COULD use in my apartment. The washer rolled into the kitchen and hooked up to the faucet and drained into the sink, and the dryer rolled to and vented out of the back door. I had to do a load or two a day, as it took at least an hour to dry a load on 110V, and it was impossible to get caught up in one day, but it was better than hauling everything out every week or two.
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          • #20
            And this is why my parents let me do my weekly laundry at their place for free.
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            • #21
              Quoth blas87 View Post
              And this is why my parents let me do my weekly laundry at their place for free.
              Oh they let me too. But I'd rather not listen to my mother squawk and bitch. If I bring anyone with me to help me fold the clothes, she traps them into a conversation for the duration of the visit. And with 3 loads and one non-commercial set of washer and dryer, that can take 5 hours.
              I think she resents the fact that I'm an independent adult and don't need her anymore.
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              • #22
                The one thing I miss about using the laundry mat is actually being done with laundry. I did laundry every Saturday night. When I got home, no matter what else happened laundry was done for the week. Now that I have my own washer and dryer laundry is never done. There is always one more load to do.
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                • #23
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                  • #24
                    I never had any problems using a laundromat, but my wife did before we got married. She was using the apartment's laundry once, and several neighborhood kids came in and turned the heat up to max on all of the dryers that were running. It ruined a lot of her clothes. This incident inspired her to buy her own house, with washer and dryer, so it would never happen again.
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                    • #25
                      Back when I lived in an apartment complex, there was only two washers and two dryers for each floor. So, we took our stuff to the laundry mat.

                      It was so boring!

                      The only time I use the mat is when I have a bunch of sheets and blankets to do.
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                      • #26
                        i dont mind the laundromat in town...it sucks though that i have to walk up and down a bunch of stairs and haul my clothes....

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                        • #27
                          Quoth Sarlon View Post
                          I agree with the statement that i do NOT miss having to go to the laundrymat to do clothes...

                          course they had the ONLY 2 pinball machines in town there...which I still hold to top score in...did I mention I went there alot...

                          good thing about it was that it was 24 hour (good for my school schedule, and work), AND they had live local musicains playing almost everytime I went there....it would of been great...if not for all the drunk idiots...

                          You don't happen to live in Cincinnati do you When I lived in Clifton ( Town University of Cincinnati is in) I did my laundry every week at Sudsy Malone's It is a bar/laundromat that has live bands. It was great, if there was a band and therefore a cover if you had laundry to do you didn't have to pay the cover
                          I used to be disgusted... Now I'm just amused

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                          • #28
                            Quoth ta2ooed1 View Post
                            You don't happen to live in Cincinnati do you When I lived in Clifton ( Town University of Cincinnati is in) I did my laundry every week at Sudsy Malone's It is a bar/laundromat that has live bands. It was great, if there was a band and therefore a cover if you had laundry to do you didn't have to pay the cover
                            I love Sudsy's. There's also one in Mt. Airy where you can tan as you do your laundry.
                            "So, if you wanna put places like that outta business, just stop being so rock-chewingly stupid." ~ Raudf, 9/19/13

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                            • #29
                              Our local laudromat is actually really nice and clean, even if some of the patrons aren't.

                              They use prepaid cards, so you can add features to your wash and do, essentially, micro-payments. And I'm certain that the machinery to read the cards is less prone to failure than coin slots.

                              The laundry room in our apartment building isn't too awful, although maintenance is iffy, at best, and they keep the room locked until you call to have it opened. The hours are like 10-10. When we moved in, someone mentioned people leaving bodily waste in the machines, but we've never seen anything even close to that. The worst we've found is tobacco from the cigars they use to make blunts out of, and we know a couple of the local teens would hang out in there to drink. Oh, and one time someone stole a pair of Nekojin's jeans. Out of an entire load of laundry, they took a single pair of jeans.

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