In every laundomat ever

A change machine that won't take any but the newest, crispest dollar bills.

humidity

change machine for customers only

spent sheets of 'Bounce' drifiting in the breeze and collecting in the corners

Bored toddlers.

Bored adults.

People eating fried chix off the folding tables that say "NO FOOD / NO DRINKS".

Lotsa fake plants

people FIGHTING TO Open the machine door, before the auto-release.

A vending machine with approximately 44% of the items displayed actually available

cork board advertising local businesses that went bust 5 years ago, plus guitar lessons

one less wheelie basket than is needed

Rolling wire baskets with wheels in dire need of repair or lubrication.

xpost!

one less table on which to fold clothes than is needed

linoleum floors that have developed their own peculiar topography

At least three washing machines with foul-smelling standing water in them.

Random weirdos hauling in their laundry in garbage bags

vague premonitions of a headache

Watchtower magazine.

Out-of-service cards filled out by patrons and affixed to dryers which have apparently not been attended to in several years

Homeless person locking self into the only bathroom (if there is one).

Young couples doing their laundry while attired in fleece/athletic wear

quarters covered in red or blue paint

People wandering in to attempt to use the broken payphone

a hot chick who will not look at you no matter how stylishly you fold your jeans

Security cameras monitored by non-existent attendants

flashing, buzzing, fluorescent light tubes

cork board advertising local businesses that went bust 5 years ago, plus guitar lessons

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Also, you'll often find the letter 'r'.

Indie album artwork photographers.

You're thinking of larundomats, Gooblar. A totally understandable mistake.

peddlers

I can't think of any use for a thread like this, unless someone's writing a novel with a chapter that takes place in a laundromat and needs some details to help 'set the scene.'

A very fat, loud conservative woman with brassy bleached hair +5" dark brown roots, eyebrow piercing, rimless glasses, stained white spaghetti-strap tank with grey sports bra showing underneath, pajama pants with Corona Beer bottle print, and slippers.

HELL OF PEOPLE TEXTING

Kids who are trying to play with their very beleaguered mom.

- TV stuck on "Judge Judy"
- Coke machine filled with Surge cola
- Duct tape wrapped around coin slot of broken washer.

I'm currently writing a book about a guy named Alex who tries to jerk off inside every laundromat in Baltimore, so this thread is very helpful!

You should have him get imprisoned for illegal entry in a very mundane place.

I'll have you know I jerk off in my apartment, where I have my own laundry machine, thank you very much.

Do you have duct tape on the coin slot?

skinny straggly-haired man sitting in boxer shorts with arms concealing groin, washing filthy pair of jeans and trying not to cry

Nick Kamen

Lethal Enforcers video game, Ms Pac Man video game.

a rack of your local apartment hunter and/or thrifty nickel and/or auto trader. they might be on the sidewalk outside, though.

braless 40-something with a scrunchie and high ponytail drinking red juice out of a filthy sippy-cup

don't forget greensheet, andrew.

In every Chicago laundomat-
-guy selling tamales out of a cooler
-guy selling socks out of a garbage bag
-sometimes same guy

'vague premonition of a headache' otm

eager laundry attended who is very helpful w/ the ladies, who don't seem to particularly need or appreciate his assistance

attendent rather

attendant rather

Remy, it's like we go to the same laundromat!

Chick tracts

chic track marks

A pile of mouldering clothes moved from a dryer to either a folding table or wheelie basket to make room for the next load because the owner of the first load went to run an errand and hasn't gotten back yet.

an amoebic pool of coagulate blue detergent like alien blood

inappropriate hard-ons.

yellow polychromethyoxyamylene 60s chairs with black bases secured to the ground

pubes

Racist employees or foreign employees.

I was just about to search for a picture of that Dan Smith flyer.

I believe we are obligated by the laws of physics to include the following in any "In Every ____ Ever" thread, and here it really makes sense. Amazing it hasn't been posted yet, come to think of it.

Blood, sand.

You're confusing laundromats with vaginas there.

I can't think of any use for a thread like this, unless someone's writing a novel with a chapter that takes place in a laundromat and needs some details to help 'set the scene.'

Annoying prats coming in shouting:"What's the use of this! What's the use of LIFE! Delete!"

> You're confusing laundromats with vaginas there.

Happens to everyone, once in a while.

c. 1978 washing powder vending machine with the brand name faded by the sun, chuck e. cheese token stuck in the quarter slot

(it has one of those ones with the twistable handle, like a gumball machine)

a constant ratcheting-down of the amount of dryer time a quarter gets you

c. 1978 washing powder vending machine with the brand name faded by the sun,

spot-on!

crossword puzzles, partially complete, often in multiple persons' handwriting

reader & soap opera digests

abandoned panties or unpaired socks, kicked into a corner, covered in lint

also, the underside of every chair and table in the joint completely covered by hard, used lumps of chewing gum

Dude with a salt and pepper mustache and three days worth of beard sipping a can of malt liquor from a brown paper bag next to the 'alcoholic beverages prohibited' sign. He is reading a sports section no less than three days old.

crossing paths with someone you only sort-of know, awkward small-talk

Around here anyway: "For Rent" sign on the window.

ruthless lighting

Rush Hour 2

galaga machine with jiggly, sticky joystick