The Laundromat By The 7-11
An apartment dweller awaiting a washer and dryer goes across the street to do his wash at the laundromat by the 7-11 where he watches TV with the local homeless.
"Another Good Wash'n'Dry"
Big real estate interests were turning the Fogview Apartments complex into Moosewood Condos. Most of the tenants had been forced out, unable to muster up enough credit and cash to qualify for a mortgage. I was still around because my roommate, a tenured professor at the University, had qualified through the housing office there.
However they hadn't yet completed the process of remodeling all the units. Our apartment was still without the soon-to-be prerequisite washer and dryer so I hustled across the street to use the laundromat by the 7-11.
There, if you were lucky, you could watch TV with the local unwashed homeless while doing a few loads. Perch on washer tops and docilely take in the morning news via the television posted across the room atop the top row of dryers.
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Copyright 2005 by Alan Mark Train
for Don't Dye Here Studios
Big real estate interests were turning the Fogview Apartments complex into Moosewood Condos. Most of the tenants had been forced out, unable to muster up enough credit and cash to qualify for a mortgage. I was still around because my roommate, a tenured professor at the University, had qualified through the housing office there.
However they hadn't yet completed the process of remodeling all the units. Our apartment was still without the soon-to-be prerequisite washer and dryer so I hustled across the street to use the laundromat by the 7-11.
There, if you were lucky, you could watch TV with the local unwashed homeless while doing a few loads. Perch on washer tops and docilely take in the morning news via the television posted across the room atop the top row of dryers.
___________________________
Copyright 2005 by Alan Mark Train
for Don't Dye Here Studios
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