Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Doing Laundry

I'm in a laundry at... In Alexandria Bay, NY... An experience. After two weeks of traveling, I was forced to do laundry. My approach so far was to buy cheap cloths when needed then dispose of them when become dirty. I could not find any cheap cloths in upstate NY and the heat forced me to change my cloths almost twice daily... My supply of new cloths finished... The only resolution was to clean the few pieces left with me... What an experience.

A process that usually require $5, cost around 10. I started by making mistakes at the detergent disposing vending machine. That's what it says. My first dollar went to twin laundry has. The second one went on the softener. What the hell is a softener? After 2 dollars, I got my two detergent boxes. Apparently, I needed two because I have to separate my whites from the colors.

The washing machine said: put detergent, put cloths, close lid, insert coins then start machine. Don't believe them. I did just that. Except the coins dispenser was not working and I had to use another machine. It is easy to remove the cloths... But how do you take the detergent out again? Here goes another dollar. Buy a new box and do the whole process again. This time I learned my lesson. I added the detergent after I inserted all th coins and before I chose the cycle.

I'm writing this while waiting for the drying, which could be another blog.

Here are some pictures to support this story.


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