laundry

[rm]

Lately, it's become easiest for me to do my laundry on weekday mornings. At my laundromat this often means that it's hard to get a washer because this is when the laundry that people send in to be done is done.

What I only realized today, however, is that this is not laundry from the neighborhood. What happens is that people drop off their laundry to be done at pricer laundromats on the UES and then these laundromats then farm the work out to my laundromat at cheaper rates and it gets done by hand at god knows what awful wages before it's carted back downtown.

Today I had to shove aside a bag bound for Gracie Mansion.

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unholy congruence

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

I just took a break from reading Henslowe's diary and hopped on LJ.

I was reading the diary, in order to see if I could find any notation for laundering fees etc (because how did they get fake blood out of costumes for a play like Titus Andronicus).

Then I saw this.

That is so alarming, I just...the things that go on underneath the world are so...gah.

Re: unholy congruence

[rm.livejournal.com]

Also, you've never been in my laundromat -- no air conditioning, just these twenty or so men and women each with a gallon jug of water sweating over clothes.