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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[magnetgirl.livejournal.com]

Fuckin' A! It doesn't help at all that I'm reading "The White City" by Erik Larson, and I keep thinking of Jurgis from "The Jungle" in his meatpacking factory...my fantasy mind is already set for that 19th century connection...!