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« Reply #30 on: January 03, 2005, 07:59:28 pm »
You just need to bring a six-pack of Smirnoff Ice to the laundromat.  Instant party!
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« Reply #31 on: January 03, 2005, 08:18:05 pm »
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Coin-op laundry is almost a deal-breaker as far as I'm concerned. My wife picked out our present location before I moved down, and it had to have a lot of things going for it for me to agree. And even then, it was the fact that a good friend of hers agreed to sell us his washer/dryer for $50 that finally sealed the deal.

I despise the laundromat. There are never cute girls dancing around there like I see in the television commercials and music videos.

Our last place had a tiny washer-dryer in unit that did like half a load and took well over 2 hours. The current place has coin-op in the basement. Between the noise and needing multiple loads I'm not sure it was actually more convenient.
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« Reply #32 on: January 03, 2005, 09:22:39 pm »
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Absolutely devilish solution to a sticky problem.


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« Reply #33 on: January 03, 2005, 09:40:51 pm »
Random laundromat stories:

When I was a child I was positive that only very poor people used the laundromat.  When one time our washer broke and my mother sent me to the coin-op to do laundry, I was mortified in the profoundly awful way that only a teenager can be mortified.  Bizarrely, when we were on food stamps for a while - which you'd think would be a more obvious marker of poverty - it didn't bother me one bit to shop with them.  But going to the laundromat was just heartrendingly embarassing.

Later when I was in college I used to go to a laundromat in Cambridge that had a sign saying that the movie Love Story was filmed there.  I couldn't really imagine that anyone cared.  Eventually sometime in the 1980s they took the sign down when they painted.
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« Reply #34 on: January 03, 2005, 10:01:00 pm »
In college, when I moved off-campus, there was a laundromat on one corner, a bar on the opposite corner.

Clothes in the washer... go drink a beer.
Come back, put them in the dryer... go drink a beer.
Come back, they aren't dry yet, pump in more quarters... go drink a beer.

Laundry wasn't so bad.
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« Reply #35 on: January 03, 2005, 10:52:11 pm »
In Columbus, we had bars that were Laundromats. You put in your clothes, had some beers, played some darts watched the game, checked your clothres, folded, had another beer, went home.

It was awesome.
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« Reply #36 on: January 03, 2005, 11:11:11 pm »
When I was young my mom used to go to a laundromat that had an attached arcade.  The best thing was that it wasn't any normal arcade, it was an all you can play arcade.  All the machines had a ton of credits on them, and if you ever found one without credits the people would add more.  

I so looked forward to laundry days, and was kind of sad when my folks found a house.
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« Reply #37 on: January 04, 2005, 01:04:03 am »
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When I was young my mom used to go to a laundromat that had an attached arcade.  The best thing was that it wasn't any normal arcade, it was an all you can play arcade.  All the machines had a ton of credits on them, and if you ever found one without credits the people would add more.  

I so looked forward to laundry days, and was kind of sad when my folks found a house.


That's a hell of an idea.
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« Reply #38 on: January 04, 2005, 04:15:25 am »
Okay, so the ultimate laundromat would have:

 - all-you-can-play arcade
 - sports/gaming bar
 - newsstand
 - bank upon bank of front-loading washer


I think I'm working up a new business plan.
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« Reply #39 on: January 04, 2005, 06:29:28 am »
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I think I'm working up a new business plan.


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« Reply #40 on: January 04, 2005, 01:17:45 pm »
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Okay, so the ultimate laundromat would have:

 - all-you-can-play arcade
 - sports/gaming bar
 - newsstand
 - bank upon bank of front-loading washer


I think I'm working up a new business plan.


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« Reply #41 on: January 04, 2005, 02:02:46 pm »
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I think I'm working up a new business plan.


Your Wise Men discover the secret of Strip Mall!

That's fine and dandy but they'd better get their asses in gear and discover the railroad. Don't they know how important that is?
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« Reply #42 on: January 04, 2005, 04:08:24 pm »
Another random laundry story

I used to live in a beautiful character building famously known around to have the second oldest elevator in the city.  The laundry room was in a very creepy area of the basement, and was constantly filled with steam.  Although the building was huge there was never anyone in the laundry room when I went in.  My friend, who I subletted this apartment from, had had his laundry stolen repeatedly, so I usually did my laundry at my parents place.

On day when I was going out, a note was tacked to a message board in the lobby which used every foul word in the English language.  The message boiled down to this - the author's laundry had been stolen, and he hopes whoever stole his clothes enjoys them because the author of the note has a very bad case of crabs.  I loved this note, and it stayed up for over a week, only to be replaced by another swearing letter full of threats of violence.
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