Saint Edward the Confessor Feast Day
World Egg Day
Birthday - Navy Birthday
World Egg Day
Birthday - Navy Birthday
All right, who invented the idea of charging a dollar to dry your clothes?
Washing I can see. You use water and power there. I can kind of understand why they would ask you to deposit five goddamn quarters in the machine to make it scrub off the things you get on your clothes, such as grass stains and gravy and excess bits of you. But another four quarters for drying? Maybe I should just take all my laundry to the swimsuit dryer at the rec center locker room after I’ve washed it.
When every load of laundry costs $2.25 in exact change, it means that you are going to do industrial size loads where you put your blankets in with your fancy embroidered blouses, set the whole thing on ‘delicate,’ and pray. After the wash you pick out the things that shouldn’t be dried in a dryer and shove the rest in.
Except I always forget that when you’ve bought a shirt from the street faire, one of those organic things made out of hemp and the wool of consenting alpacas or whatever and hand-dyed by Nepalese monks using an ancient technique that, judging by the smell, involves massive quantities of incense,* the first couple of times you wash it the dye is going to run.
Which would have been disastrous, because this shirt is tie-dyed bright orange, had it not been for a brave pair of underwear that took it upon itself to absorb everything that ran from the shirt. Which means that the rest of my laundry survived unoranged, but now I do have one pair of formerly white briefs that look like they have been smote by the God of Tang.
Dammit, I wish I had my laundry rabbit here to help me through things like that.
*This is the category most of the shirts available in Eugene fall into.