And I mean laundry laundry, not money laundry...
I got up this morning early to do a load or two of clothes to make sure I'm leaving for Russia with practically all clean stuff... What a process. First, you have to buy a "smart card" for $5 (or $10 or $20), which gets you $3 of laundry time. I ran two loads and it cost me $2.70 (the smart card isn't smart enough to give change). Then I realized I needed drying time, but I didn't have another $5 (only a $20 bill), so I woke up the deeply sleeping woman at the front desk who looked irritated and said she had only twenties... So I walked a few blocks to the nearest convenience store, got a cup of coffee and a newspaper, got one five in change, came back and added $5 to that smart card, so now I have $3.30 to spend on drying one load. What a racket! I feel sorry for the hapless college kids who are exploited by the laundry mafia...
The government needs to know about this. If I disappear, please tell my story...
