One final laundry go
I'm totally out of clothes now, but there's only one week to go. But I can't really stretch it anymore. So I decide after my two exams today to do laundry.
There are only seven days left, so at the end of that I can finish up with whatever's at home. This means that I had to wash:
- About 8 or 9 shirts (some I need to sleep in)
- All the pajama bottoms (about 6 pairs I think)
- 8 pairs of shorts (1 for surplus)
- 9 pairs of underware (you really wanted to know that; 2 for surplus)
- 16 socks (1 pair surplus)
So I go downstairs to do the laundry (it's about 4 lighter loads in the washers), load all of the washers up, put in the detergent, and go to swipe my card. For those of you who don't know, I did put money on my card i) because it's slightly cheaper the cash and ii) it's pain in the rear end to get quarters all the time. Unfortunately the card reader says "CASH ONLY."
I go next door to the other half of the laundry suite, and as I feared it also said "CASH ONLY." I guess I shouldn't be surprised; it's the end of the semester so they put the readers on cash only mode.
Unfortunately, I have no quarters. And no $1 dollar bills either. Luckily, I had actually had cash on hand (I was spending money for once), and after a little searching, located a five dollar bill. The quarter changer downstairs takes five dollar bills. Of course, if my luck had truly been off today, it would have been broken, out of quarters, or something (I could've gone to a near dorm in that case I guess).
Today my luck is in, it has quarters. Success. Rush down to the laundry room to put in the money and start the loads.
Each load in the washer is $1, four loads = $4. That leaves $1 for drying, and a dryer cycle is 25 cents, so I should be good, right?
Wrong! Those dryer cycles are only 24 minutes, and 24 minutes on those things isn't enough for most loads. So I need one more dollar in quarters. This time, I don't have to leave my laundry sitting and not washing (I have about 34 minutes for it to take washing). I also happened to have a $10 dollar bill, so I went down to the C-store, spent a $1, got $9 back, went back to the coin machine and got four more quarters. Interestingly enough, I also got a $2 bill from the cashier, so the day turns out nice after all.
Now if only my exams would somehow work out pleasantly like that. Four more to go after two today; the four being two on Thursday, one on Monday, and one next Tuesday. Hopefully they all work out.
METAR KRDU 032151Z 27009KT 10SM SCT075 SCT200 19/03 A3009 RMK SLP190Labels: misadventure, other
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