I don't hate doing laundry, but I am just lazy about it. I always end up doing it when I am all out of clothes to wear and its either do laundry or buy new underwear. More often than not, I choose to do the laundry, but more than once have I ended up buying new stuff too. And actually - laundry isnt a big thing .. I mean you just put the clothes in, pour in a bit of detergent and put in the money .. hardly takes any time. So why the indolence? Who knows.
But this isnt about that. This is about the chagrin that I suffer these days when I go to do my laundry. I do it (the laundry) on weekends and apparently, so do a lot of other people in my complex. (big surprise). The last time I went there .. I took out my clothes from the washer .. put them in the dryer .. fed the money .. all the while talking on the phone, set the setting. There was a cute girl doing something similar .. smiled .. noting to try and get to know her better sometime .. and left. 45 mins later .. same scene .. her, me .. and about 4 more of my neighbours. I opened the dryer to take out my clothes .. and they were still soaking wet!! I was like .. WTF?? And that was not in my mind either. So I was cursing the dumb dryer when she came to me ..
she : are these clothes yours?
me: (in my head) of course (aloud) yeah ..
she: when you put them in .. you put them in the top dryer but you put the money in for the bottom one
me: !!??!???!!! WTH?? I did that??!
she: um uh.
me: stupid!! stupid!!! no not you .. me .. I cant believe I did that! well .. thanks for letting me know.
I could feel the whole laundry room sniggering at me .. just about the same way you are right now. Oh you think its funny is it? Well .. it is funny. Its hilarious .. I admit it. Except I still cant believe I did that. So I came up with a theory .. an explanation lets call it .. a plan to do your laundry for free once in a while .. a plan so twisted .. only a sick, demented mind could formulate it. Its kind of admirable in a way.
You wait for some sucker to come by and put his laundry in .. make sure noone else is in the laundry room .. when he leaves (it has to be a he .. girls fight back) you open the dryer (you dont want to do it for the washer .. the dryer clothes are clean) .. you take out his clothes and shift them to another dryer. Then you put in your clothes .. in the original dryer to dry. Wait until ilke 5 mins before the end of the cycle .. pull out your wonderfully warm and dry clothes .. and return the suckers clothes back into the original dryer. Leave. Or if its too late to leave .. offer the above mentioned explanation. Deadly huh?
I can still sense the neighbours' kids pointing to me and asking their moms 'is he the one?'. Not to mention that none of my friends bought my theory of the laundry freeloader.
Posted by anya at February 9, 2006 10:37 AMMy condolances with you, by the way I did that once in Palo Alto(i think) and after putting in the coins I realised it,and then shifted my clothes before starting it. There was not a hush around!
Btw I think you gotta try that idea out. The laundry room owes you that much.
conclusion:
girl + laundry(or anything requiring careful attention to minute details such as inserting coins in the right slot) + anya = doom
btw abt your devious plan: make sure the dude is not some super-muscular-i'll-beat-u-furst-then-talk kinda guy.