Laundry: The Two-Day-Event
Laundry: The Two-Day-Event
Laundry. Everyone hates it. It’s worse here. The washing machines here take for ever. It’s an hour to wash and two hours to dry. That kind of makes laundry an all day event, even if all you have is one load, but wait, it gets better. Well, on Wednesday, I decided to do laundry. Nothing out of the ordinary. I put my laundry in the washer, add soap, close the door (front load washers) and put my laundry card in the little card reader and push the button. Nothing happens. “Um, hello? Waschmaschine?” There is no power to the washing machines, and no power to the card reader. My card won’t come out. “Great.” So I go back to the washer and push the door button to open the door. Nothing happens. Apparently the door button is also somehow electrical. “Fantastic.” So now my laundry and my laundry card are stuck in the laundry room. So I go back up to my room and get my phone. Oh yeah, I’m out of prepaid minutes. I can’t call the Hausmeister. So I go to the international office to see if I can use their phone. No one is there. So I go to the Eurobiz office. No one is there. So I go to the Studentwerk (housing) office. No one is there. Are we noticing a pattern? So I just go home, throw a temper tantrum, and wait. In the morning, I got up early and went downstairs to talk to the Hausmeister. I told him the washer was broken. I don’t know how to say that someone must have blown a fuse in German. He goes down stairs to the laundry room and opens a fuse box (it was locked or I would have done it my self) then the washer turns on and I can take my laundry card. I thanked him and went to class. When I got out of class, I put my clothes in the dryer and went to work for a few hours. When I got home, the dryer with my laundry in it was already open, my clothes were still wet and there was a paper taped to it that said “kaput”. Well thanks. That probably would have been a good thing to know before I put my clothes in it and paid to dry them. So I took my wet clothes and hung them all around my tiny room to dry, a full day after I started to do laundry.
Laundry. Everyone hates it. It’s worse here. The washing machines here take for ever. It’s an hour to wash and two hours to dry. That kind of makes laundry an all day event, even if all you have is one load, but wait, it gets better. Well, on Wednesday, I decided to do laundry. Nothing out of the ordinary. I put my laundry in the washer, add soap, close the door (front load washers) and put my laundry card in the little card reader and push the button. Nothing happens. “Um, hello? Waschmaschine?” There is no power to the washing machines, and no power to the card reader. My card won’t come out. “Great.” So I go back to the washer and push the door button to open the door. Nothing happens. Apparently the door button is also somehow electrical. “Fantastic.” So now my laundry and my laundry card are stuck in the laundry room. So I go back up to my room and get my phone. Oh yeah, I’m out of prepaid minutes. I can’t call the Hausmeister. So I go to the international office to see if I can use their phone. No one is there. So I go to the Eurobiz office. No one is there. So I go to the Studentwerk (housing) office. No one is there. Are we noticing a pattern? So I just go home, throw a temper tantrum, and wait. In the morning, I got up early and went downstairs to talk to the Hausmeister. I told him the washer was broken. I don’t know how to say that someone must have blown a fuse in German. He goes down stairs to the laundry room and opens a fuse box (it was locked or I would have done it my self) then the washer turns on and I can take my laundry card. I thanked him and went to class. When I got out of class, I put my clothes in the dryer and went to work for a few hours. When I got home, the dryer with my laundry in it was already open, my clothes were still wet and there was a paper taped to it that said “kaput”. Well thanks. That probably would have been a good thing to know before I put my clothes in it and paid to dry them. So I took my wet clothes and hung them all around my tiny room to dry, a full day after I started to do laundry.
posted by Frances | 3:21 PM
1 Comments:
Maybe this will "wash" away some pain...Zetterburg signed today!!! Go Wings!!! And they still hold some rights on Datsuk until 2007. They're keeping in touch with his agent. On the laundry issue...kaput is a good word. At least no one took your things!!
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