Decemblog! 06/31 – Lame Laundry

One of the very few things that I dislike about residence life is doing laundry. Actually, doing laundry in Totem wasn’t that bad, I just had to drag my laundry bag to the elevator and I was practically there, no, I think it is doing laundry in Fairview that bugs me the most.

First off, Fairview has three laundry rooms, each of these have seven washers and seven dryers. For the first couple months this worked out pretty well. Rarely did we have to pull someone else’s laundry out to put ours in, and there were usually washers/dryers available when we needed them. It sucked to have to walk to the laundry room outside, but it was pretty close.

Well that was until about a month ago, when (I can only assume) drunken partyers broke into our laundry room and yanked the doors off a couple of dryers, and made a mess of the facilities, because now that laundry room, our laundry room, is out of commission. This means we have to haul our laundry to the next closest laundry room which, frankly, isn’t all that close. And now that there are twice as many people sharing this one laundry room, it is nearly impossible to find an empty machine. The room is practically full of clothes (because, for some reason, there are quite a few people out there who just throw it in the washer and forget about it) and half of the machines are broken. Twice tonight we left our clothes in a machine, only to come back half an hour later to find them not even wet. (This inconvenience led to the laundry trip costing just under 13 dollars for 4 loads.) Pair that with the crappiest weather ever and some less-than-fashionable laundry day clothes, and we did not have a fun evening.

All-in-all I am just happy to have clean clothes, I just shudder to think of next week, when I plan on washing all the bedding…