College Laundry Story

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<p>NJRes, that is hilarious (the song). I don’t recall what he was playing. I recall how in normal introductions, name/age came up. It turns out that he has the same name as my brother and was born on the same day in the same year. I recall that convo. Also, since he had been in Boston a while and I was new, he was going to go out in Harvard Square with me to hear music. </p>

<p>While he ought to write a song about how he met his wife doing laundry and now he never has to do it…or “she just loved my underwear”…LOL (I’m gonna suggest this topic now)…I have heard him publicly perform a song he wrote (recently) about how he hates to do the dishes! (I tend to cook dinner and he cleans up)</p>

<p>Oh, I should add since you said it was quite an “image” of him playing guitar waiting for the laundry…well guess where he practices guitar in our house now? We have a fairly big house but it is very “open”. The downstairs rooms are not closed off and the great room is vaulted to the upstairs where there is a bridge connecting the bedrooms. We can talk floor to floor easily. When he practices guitar (which is every day) and I don’t really want to hear it if it is distracting, he goes to the one place he can shut out the noise and that is our master bathroom which is large enough that he brings in a chair and plays in there (in case you had images of him sitting on something else). Truly, he was practicing in there last night.:D</p>

<p>However, back when kids (particularly youngest) lived here, and he took her to dance or some other activity (which are all very far from here so the parent has to stay and can’t go home), she would absolutely KILL him if he brought his guitar and practiced anywhere near by. Big no no in her eyes.</p>

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<p>Could he practice air guitar, though?</p>

<p>Aren’t there songs about laundromats? If not , there should be.</p>

<p>Soozie, next time you are in Cambridge, stop by the laundromat that has a sign in the window “featured in Love Story.”</p>

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<p>There was Leader of the Laundromat–a take off of Leader of the Pack…</p>

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<p>Okay found some (see the connection between laundromat and student loans?)</p>

<p>love and advertising [EXPLICIT LYRICS]
The Dan Emery Mystery Band

  1. The Only One Who Loves You
  2. Her Favorite Bra
  3. It’s Not Enough To Be In Love
  4. Space Renegade
  5. Winning
  6. The Girl In The Laundromat
  7. Other People’s Tongues
  8. Student Loan
  9. (One Good Reason To) Shake Your Booty
  10. I Just Want To Live
  11. Don’t Let Me Die Tonight
  12. Alone On The Moon</p>

<p>The Village Voice
“These verbose local guys do songs about laundromats and student loans and bras and other people’s tongues, but their best one is the one that sort of sounds like if Red Dark Sweet covered “The Gift” by the Velvet Underground, only not as noisy and with monologue parts about divorced moms, Starbucks, and finding Quiet Riot and John Lee Hooker in the cutout bin.”–Chuch Eddy
<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00003005U?v=glance[/url]”>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00003005U?v=glance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Marite, you are too much! Maybe I was “The Girl in the Laundromat”?? </p>

<p>This reminds me of a book I read this summer and the title escapes me but the guy and the girl met at the laundromat in Cambridge, near Porter Square :D. </p>

<p>Ellem…I never heard of Leader of the Laundromat but I do know Leader of the Pack so it must be a funny take off. Coincidentally, my D, the one who had the laundry incident that created this weird thread, LOL, played the lead in the musical, Leader of the Pack, which is the story of Ellie Greenwich who wrote many girl songs in the 60’s including Leader of the Pack. She played Ellie Greenwich and performed all those songs.</p>

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<p>How did you miss Leader of the Laundromat, Soozie? It’s hilarious, especially if you know Leader of the Pack. </p>

<p>I met her one day at the Laundromat.
[She turned around and smiled at me, ya get the picture? Yes, we see.]
And that’s when I fell in love with the Leader Of the Laundromat…</p>

<p>(recorded by The Detergents…)</p>

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<p>Don’t miss the 5 laundry classics by [The</a> Bobs](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Songs-Tomorrow-Morning-Bobs/dp/B00000333Q]The”>http://www.amazon.com/Songs-Tomorrow-Morning-Bobs/dp/B00000333Q). My favorite title is “Where Does The Wayward Footwear Go?”</p>

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<p>Bookiemom–are you really the mom of a bookie? I had forgotten who had done the song. Thanks for the reminder.</p>

<p>My folks were always putting her down (down, down)
Because her laundry came back brown (brown, brown)
I don’t care if they think she’s bad
I fell in love cuz she looked so sad
I got a date tonight with the Leader Of the Laundromat</p>

<p>{motorcycle revs, sputters, and stalls}
[Dang it!!]</p>

<p>My dad said “Find a laundry that’s new” (find a laundry that’s new)
How can I tell my baby we’re through (tell my baby we’re through)
Gotta drive right into town
I don’t care if my shirts are brown
I got a date tonight with the Leader Of the Laundromat</p>

<p>{motorcycle revs, sputters, and stalls}
[Dang it!!]</p>

<p>[When I finally got there, I told her it was all over between us. I’ll never forget the hurt and the funny look in her eye. She grabbed my laundry and ran into the street, directly into the path of a runaway garbage truck.
I yelled “watch out !, watch out !, watch out !, watch out !, watch ou-u-t !”</p>

<p>{screeching brakes, crash, sound of breaking glass and falling metal parts}
[Dang it!!]</p>

<p>I felt so messy standing there (messy standing there)
My daddy’s shorts were everywhere (daddy’s shorts were everywhere)
Tenderly I kissed her goodbye
Picked up my clothes, they were finally dry
But I won’t forget you, oh Leader Of the Laundromat</p>

<p>(Isn’t the internet amazing!!! You can find lyrics of an obscure song in a flash–but can’t really vouch for the reliability of the info.)</p>

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<p>Susan,
All’s dry that end’s dry! Again, on behalf of the People of the State of New York, I breathe a sigh of relief amidst my guffaw.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the laughs in the posts above! :D</p>

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<p>Well, it looks like not only was it not lost, but it miraculously got dry! :)</p>

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<p>Soozivt, your post brought back some memories. As a newly wed, I was particularly pleased with my set of beautiful yellow high quality towels that we had gotten as wedding gifts. First set of matched, decent towels in my life–and the last! They were stole within a few months from our building laundrey room–just like your D’s clothes. They had to be wet too. To this day, I cannot perceive of anyone stealing a load of heavy wet towels, but it did happen. For years in that building I was eyeing any loads of yellow, but I never did catch a glimpse of those towels.</p>

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<p>Try living in a fraternity house with 30+ guys and one washer and one dryer. If you left stuff in either machine for more than 30 seconds after your cycle was done it ended up on the table.</p>

<p>So what did we do?</p>

<p>Well, 3-4 of us would load our laundry in someone’s car, stop and buy a 12 pack of beer and head off to the laundromat, usually with a boombox, and have a laundry night of about 2 hrs. of doing laundry, drinking beer and listening to cassette tapes of music.</p>

<p>Now that I think of it the beer store was within a block of the laundromat! Talk about location, location, location…</p>

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<p>cassette tapes…we had 8 tracks…my dad was hip…when we lived in germany, we did our laundry at the base…now that was fun…crowded, loud, very social</p>

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<p>Close to topic: My daughter called us three times yesterday. Once to thank us for the brownies we sent her, then twice just to talk to wife: once to ask what wash cycle to set, and after wash to ask how long to set the dryer for. Last week she called to ask me what wattage light bulb to get for her desk lamp. Hey, a call’s a call, it’s always a treat to hear from her and know we are still needed for some things.</p>

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<p>I’m all worried now - am planning to do my first wash of term in my new building tomorrow, and I never stay in the room (though admittedly, last year I always found the best time to do the laundry was at about 1am).
I did sometimes wait with my bf for his clothes to dry (very short cycles) and have many a deep and meaningful chat - romantic places those laundrettes!</p>

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<p>Just spoke to son about laundry. He did drop off/pick up of 20 lbs worth @ $1/lb. At least that way they start folded!</p>

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<p>I was talking to my son the other day and he got a message on his computer that his laundry was done downstairs. They have new machines that send them emails when they are about to finish! That is one way to handle the problem. :)</p>

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<p>I was talking to my son last week and asked him if there was anything that I could get him from here or at a store to send in a care package. I know he hates to shop and I like to. He said he could use some more boxers and socks and maybe another pair of pants. I found about 5 pairs of socks of his that must have been in the dryer after he was packed, bought a pair of jeans and some boxers that were on sale. I packed them up with a book and an umbrella that he also asked for and sent them off. On the way back from the P.O. I was thinking about his clothes and remembered that we had counted up a weeks worth for his orientation and then we packed more for move-in. The stinker had about 10 days worth of clothes, and I had just sent him boxers for 6 more days! The problem was not that he didn’t have enough clothes, the problem was that his hamper is so big that he’s been going for at least 10 days without doing laundry. AND - his room is right across the hallway from the laundry room with a FREE washer and dryer.</p>