You must watch very different movies than I do. I immediately envision something dank and dark with flickering lights.
And a naked, bloody clown playing patty cake with his imaginary friend while his clothes wash.
How do you know they're a clown if they're naked?
They might just be a juggalo
That's even worse!
Yes, very different movies.
And a frustrated Mr Bean trying to do laundry.
We're back to sexy!
That one episode of Friends
Uh oh, the laundry's done!
Because some of those angry lonely people are writers, and they have a lot of time to think.
Correct answer.
The people there are mainly bored because they are waiting. And sometimes creativity arises out of boredom.
Daydream, “lots of time to ‘daydream’”
Let’s be honest half the stuff a guy writes is about how to win a girl over and the other half is having sex with said girl.
The scientific reason is that the 350 watt drum connected to the dryer motor vibrates at 55 hertz which stimulates the female solar plexus. This creates a chain reaction and urges males to assert dominance and proceed with a mating ritual. When you combine this with the enticingly large sums of cash at a typical laundromat, you can see this is a devastating combination. The scantily clad hot body people is a side effect, not the cause.
That reads like something out of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The laundromat has angry people who don't want to be there,
I live in a college town. The laundromat nearest me has a bar.
Or maybe it's a bar with a laundromat as lots of stains happen in bars.
I've seen one laundromat/bar like that, and instantly thought it was genius.
I miss Sit and Spin in downtown Seattle. Cafe in the front, bar and event venue in the back and laundry on the side.
Wow, what kind of lame laundromats have you been visiting?
My last three laundromat visits involved anal.
Nah, it just felt like it because it costs so much to start the machine.
Just put a few quarters in her
You're supposed to remove your clothes from your anus before you go to the laundromat.
I won't make that mistake again.
aren’t wearing underwear because it’s in the wash
??????? Do these people only have one paif of underwear??
Hey everyone! Take a look at mister "I have two pairs of underwear" over here!
I have zero paifs of underwear.
Same
Yeah I'm tired of all this laundromat sexy-washing.
I have never seen a laundromat romanticized in a movie as far as I can recall.
Everything Everywhere All At Once
When they announced that movie won at the Oscars, I swear I thought what they were trying to say was that all the movies won.
Yeah, watched it with my wife and we both said roughly WTF was that after it ended
Don't believe everything you see on TV. There's a reason it's called "the idiot box".
I think it's because they are a setting where people are there for a separate purpose to meeting a partner, which allows for romance to be portrayed as spontaneous. Also, clothes (particularly underwear, pyjamas and towels) come into contact with the body and imply intimacy.
Seattle used to have a combination laundromat/bar that was called Sit and Spin.
Never had a chance to go. I imagine it was a very horny place. Also at the time median age in Seattle was like 23.
It makes me wonder how many people don't own washing machines. I mean I consider that was essential as a fridge.
I mean.....it's getting harder and harder to buy a house as an individual. Apartment living is very real. And if you rent in a duplex, you're not going to buy a washer/dryer.
So.....yeah. I'd say not owning washer/dryer starts becoming more common if you're under 45, and gets more common the younger you go.
Do your landlords not have any requirements to provide even a communal washing machine? In Sweden, and probably most other countries, the law says you have to have it within reasonable distance, otherwise the apartment isn't considered "livable".
THe owner of my laundromat claims that it's cheaper to do your laundry there than at home. At first i thought "of course a laundromat owner would say that", but then he argued that his machines are more efficient than the ones we buy and that they are collectively heated.
I still think he's fulll of shit because he only argued about energy costs, not including his rent taxes or profit; but it did get me thinking that it would be cheaper and more efficient to wash our clothes collectively.
Definitely more common in suburban areas with more single family homes or places with larger apartments.
That said, having to drag all your laundry down to the laundromat or building laundry is very inconvenient and sucks up a lot of time. I don't miss that at all.
I mean you can't have a rags to riches romance take place where all the riches are.
In all seriousness, it's probably the culture. A lot of countries/cities do have settings where laundromats are slightly less angry because it's the preferred norm for getting things done.
That, sadly, does not include my local laundromat, which I'm reluctant to tend to during late hours. One could say it's like the real Five Nights at Freddy's there.
Well I mean people have to strip naked in the laundromat to wash their clothes. What, you guys don’t do that?
For real though, I’d guess it’s just because it’s sort of a meet-cute type of location since patrons may kill time there while their clothes wash and dry and might chat with other patrons while waiting.
See, movies and TV shows are so unrealistic. Dry Cleaning is where the action is.
Ugh! No lube?
Be the change you want to see. Strip naked in the laundromat, lead by example...
I immediately thought of this sexy flight of the Conchords music video:
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