Saturday, 16 May 2009
Why I use a laundromat
Kahless says:
"Well Widow Twanky,
I recommend a washing machine to save your legs!"
(end quote)
Well I am back Kahless.
Not too sure what a twanky is but I am not a widow that's for sure.
I however will say no to the washing machine. My approach to domesticity is minimalist. I don’t like clutter in my home.
I have thought about buying a washing machine and I would have spent more at the laundromat than a machine would cost. However I have made my decision and I stand by it.
They are big items and thus take up space and usually you would get a dryer as well which is also a relatively big item that are also hard to move around. Goodbye space as well! So I don’t have one, also once it is there you have to insure it and eventually it breaks down and then you have to get a guy to fix it. He could not care less and does not turn up when he says he is going to and does a dodgy job anyway.
Also they inevitably leak water underneath the machine and then comes the fungal growths and with fungus comes other things like odours and insects and rodents.
It is far easier just not to have one and also laundromats are very interesting places. You meet all sorts of people there from all walks of life. From the homeless person who wanders in and asks for a few dollars to the lonely desperate guy who has just been told to leave the home as his wife no longer wants him. To the woman who uses about 5 machines all at once each only with a few items in each. Firstly this pisses everyone off as then there are no machines left during the busy times. She can’t put the colours with the whites and she can’t put her underwear with her skirts apparently. Then you have the young back packers who talk some odd language and whilst waiting they canoodle up the back corner.
I also know the guy who owns the place well now., I know all about his wife and how she nags him, who he follows in the football and how his teenage children show him no respect at all which accounts for why he spends so much time in his laundromat.
Graffiti
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I really think your adventures at the laundromat would make a good book Tony!! That last passage sounded exactly like what Maeve Binchy would write and she's one of my favourite authors. LOL
Have a great day and don't forget to vote!! :-)
Posted by: KazzaB | Saturday, 16 May 2009
sounds like you have a good system Tony. My washing machine is going right now. I hope I remember to hang it out.
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Posted by: kenoath | Saturday, 16 May 2009
I like doing my laundry at my parents. It's nice to not have to pull out all my dirty clothed in front of strangers.
The apartment I will move in it September has no laundry so I will have to go to the laudromat down the street. I'm kinda dreading it. I don't want to meet interesting people. I just want to do my laundry. I can just picture some creep hitting on me while I try to shove my underwear into the machine. I get bothered enough on the train with headphones on while reading. At a laundromat I'm going to have to babysit my clothing. So I'll be stuck sitting there being a target. And then the anonymity is somewhat lost because anyone bothering me will know i live in the area. Just wait, I'm going to do paranoid walking in zigzags to get home to avoid being followed.
Annnnnd this is why I shouldn't follow along anxious trains of thought while tired and starving myself.
Posted by: Lee | Saturday, 16 May 2009
Hello KazzaB,
Good to hear from you and thank you for your kind comments.
I have voted you will be glad to know and I voted "Yes"
Graffiti
Posted by: Tony | Saturday, 16 May 2009
Remember to hang the laundry out kenoath!!
Whilst I wash my clothes at the laundromat I do hang them out at my home. Unless it is raining and then I use their dryers. So my laundry is hanging out as we speak now
Graffiti
Posted by: Graffiti | Saturday, 16 May 2009
Well I would agree with you there Lee about chains of thoughts leading to anxiety. Maybe a dash of paranoia there as well as you say.
So you feel a bit rotund at the moment? And hence the starvation. Instead of eating go to the laundromat.
Graffiti
Posted by: Tony | Saturday, 16 May 2009
I sorta feel the same way about public transportation.
Posted by: myalterego | Saturday, 16 May 2009
Hello myalterego,
Thanks for your comment, had not heard from you for sometime.
Speaking of public transport. Just this afternoon I caught the train into the city to get some clothes. One certainly does see all kinds of people on the train.
Whilst in the city (down town I think you call it) I always check out the buskers and there was one guy who had a huge audience and he was very good indeed. Sort of a bit of dance and moon walking and also a lot of mime. I always wanted to learn mime, maybe I will one day
graffiti
Posted by: Graffiti | Saturday, 16 May 2009
Tony!!
You never seen Aladdin??
Actually I havent lol, but I know who widow Twanky is...
Here, I got you this from Wikipedia...
"Widow Twankey is a female character in the pantomime Aladdin. The character is a pantomime dame, portrayed by a man; and is a comic foil to the principal boy, Aladdin – played by a female actor.
Widow Twankey first occurs in 1861, the character runs a Chinese laundry in Peking, China and is a pantomime dame; that is always played by a man. One of her sons, Aladdin, is the hero of the pantomime, while her other son, often named Wishy Washy (or Wishee Washee), just helps in the laundry. She is not pivotal in the plot (such as it is), but more a source of interaction with the audience through jokes and innuendo — mostly centred on items of underwear on the washing line."
Panto's are a big thing in the uk; I assume not so in Oz. I remember Gez went to one I think, when she was here, so ask her to fill you in....
I think you would enjoy seeing a pantomine.
Posted by: Kahless | Sunday, 17 May 2009
Tony?
How many slabs did you drink before you wrote this post? Just curious.
AND...
Gosh i hope you drank a lot of water before you went to bed.
Actually i'll come right out and ask you... did you write this post or did someone else?
Posted by: roses | Sunday, 17 May 2009
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