Wednesday, June 11, 2025

laundry again

hello there


at the very great risk of turning a quite significant percentage of posts this month into being ones pertaining to cleaning stuff, here we go. once more, as the title gives you every indication, i went to the laundry. why did i go? to do laundry, look you see. valid question, mind, for as someone what gone done aged if not (entirely) grew up in the 80s, well, my generation was taught that a laundry was a place to go specifically to take your clothes off with some boss Motown music playing. so no, i did not, as point of fact, Nick Kamen it.

for what reason do i use a laundry to do, well, laundry? not all of my laundry requirements are done there, as it happens. if you have not read previous chapters of laundry adventures and further have no intention of doing so (but still here and here if you do have intention) i make use of such a facility primarily (but not exclusively) to do bedding. garments i can pretty much wash (and dry) at my lodgings in my place of exile, but there's simply no space to dry big massive bedding items. so, when rather than as and when i change bedding, i go to the laundry to wash and dry it. perhaps i could wash them in lodgings and just use the dryer machine, but that would involve carrying wet laundry just south of a mile. no, thanks. 


in the last two (2) instances of this, which i think (or believe) happen to be the first such ones too, i seem to recall doing two (2) sets of bedding. this time it was just the one, which i had recently changed. for some reason i was a bit irked (not annoyed, but still) at leaving unwashed (if not particularly badly soiled) bedding at home. having found myself awake at a quite silly (as in early) time one saturday morning i figured, since i had gone done breakfast, blood test and a disproportionate number of pills ostensibly keeping me alive, why not take a walk and just go get it done. with a couple of towels. 

having arrived mere minutes after (or past) the designated opening time of the laundry i found that i had the place more or less to myself. well, not entirely, the chap what runs it (manager, i suppose) was there, and it was so that we exchanged pleasantries. jolly nice fellow he is too, providing me with a basket to transport washed items to the dryer. mindful that i never doubted (or questioned) the veracity of the statement, what that one patron told me on a previous (i think my second) visit appears true; it is better to go early when few ("less") are around so as to avoid any politics of who(m) is using which machine. 

video? video. 


someone else, another patron, did indeed arrive to make use of the facility, but it was as i had reached the business end, or if you will climax, of my need to be there. he had come in, as i have seen many others do, just to use the tumble dryer. there are several signs warning customers that those what are here to gone done use the washing machines get priority use of the tumble dryers. merrily this was no issue, and no quarrel, for my bedding (and towels) were already in one of them and, unlike my previous excursion there, more ("greater") than one of them was armed and fully operational. or working, in basic, straightforward language. 

how long does all of this laundry stuff take? well, if we limit that to time "on site", so as to exclude travel there and back, a bit north of one hour. the washing bit takes around half an hour, more or less the same for drying (unless you want to do some extra minutes for luck), and then there's loading, unloading, moving, loading, unloading, folding and bagging. whilst the machines do their thing, as in during those 30 minute (or so) bouts mostly, to pass the time, i read whatever paperback i am busy with. yes, i did that with this trip. sure, every now and then i shall step outside momentarily (sorry), but reading would be mostly it. quite like the clear time to do it (read) with no distractions. 


for some reason i have an idea (or notion) that in the previous posts on the subject of laundry visits i didn't pay all that much attention, or give too much information, on the tumble dryer side of all of this. very doubtful that i will give all that much more here, but all the same the remaining two (2) images and further (final) VHS mode video are of the tumble dryer. should that please you, well, so much the better. if not you can just skip the rest, i suppose. 

which do i prefer, going to the laundry or making use of a car wash? both have decidedly positive qualities to them. for the car wash side, well, verk pay for both that service and for my time getting it done. there's some amusement in pretending you are a goldfish, or in a boss submarine, as the water splashes all over the windscreen, but "some" in this instance is not that much. laundry visits give me clean bedding, some time to read and the opportunity to stand and smoke somewhere different (sorry), but does cost me. ultimately, though, i think laundry wins for reasons listed already here. if we are to be honest i really could not give a f*** what state a vehicle is in (so long as the tape deck works) and if they didn't pay me to use it and pay for the service it most certainly would not be getting done. 


bit surprising, all things considered, that the tumble dryer (or clothes drying) part of the entire experience is the cheapest. costs £1 for 10 (ten) minutes, and so far i have only had to use it for 30 minutes (half an hour), with me sometimes putting an extra 50p in for luck, or to make sure it is all done, or purely for the sh!ts and giggles. should you have not read the other posts, the wash part costs you either £5.50 for the moderate machine (which i used here) or £6.50 for the full tilt massive industrial scale one. my guess, based on the heat they generate, is that the tumble dryers likely cost more to run than the washing machines, and with more people using them alone it is a wonder they don't charge more. not that i would wish for them to. 

earlier, rather than later, i mentioned further video would feature. and here it is. 


can't imagine anyone is all that interested, but for clarification it is indeed my "Grogu" out of that boss tele show (and soon film) The Mandalorian bedding getting washed. as it happens, or for any sort of peculiar record being kept, i believe it was sold to me branded as featuring "The Child", for it was manufactured prior to them revealing his name in the show. likely why it was so cheap. 

no, i am not going to look this up, i am going to assume that the person what named a tumble dryer what it is was some smarmy "marketing" (or advertising) executive that got paid a ludicrous six figure sum. perhaps i should have had more of a go at a career in advertising, but i really don't like horn rimmed glasses and cocaine always struck me as something to leave to tales of rock legends rather than to do on a regular basis. how difficult was it to name a machine (or device) that dries clothes (or in this instance bedding) whilst they tumble about? no doubt it first got called "tumble dryer drum" and then the executive got a bonus for thinking to remove the last word. believe me, i have spent long enough in corporate circles to know that many people get paid ludicrous money for utter sh!t. 


i don't, in all honesty, think that anyone is going to find this post (or ones like it) all that interesting. perhaps i just write them for my own peculiar amusement. that said, if someone out there is really all that interested in impersonating my life, well, this is quite decent research material to do just that, i suppose. one cannot really understand why someone would wish to impersonate me; one cannot really imagine that they would do all that much worse with this life than i. 

right, with nothing else to add in relation to tumble dryers (or any other aspect) that's that for this post on a laundry visit. yes, probably, is the answer as to if there will be any more of these in the future. since such already exists in the past. likely not for a bit, though. 





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