Everybody always presents laundromats in tv shows and movies as this sexy place where you meet horny singles who aren’t wearing underwear because it’s in the wash.
But in real life, that just isn’t true. The laundromat has angry people who don’t want to be there, and nobody EVER has sex, or takes their clothes off.
So why are laundromats always presented like that?
Because people who never needed to use an annoying thing like to imagine and romantize how they would use it. Completely ignoring reality.
I hate how tv seems to be written by people who have no idea how regular people live. Like how in tv shows, people pop in on someone at home and person is fully made up and dressed, and their homes are always spotless. You pop in on me unexpected and I’m going to be in my boxer briefs, angry that I’m being disturbed, and there are kids toys and laundry all over the living room
I always found it funny how writers portray themselves as upper middle class in New York living in in apartment only the top 1% of writers can afford when the reality is the opposite.
I think it’s more that if TV was just real life nobody would watch it
I actually love shoes like Sopranos that pay attention to those details. Why is the soprano home so clean? They have a maid. Then Tony moves out into his mom’s old place and it’s a shit show, dishes, pizza boxes and beer bottles everywhere. Clothes all over the floor
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.
I’ve definitely experienced romance in a laundromat, it was a place where I had basically nothing but time and was freshly out on my own. It was a place I could focus on texting someone I was falling for.
Also it’s one of those things I will struggle to avoid any chance I can get in the future because that time translated to an hour and a half long chore that’s mostly waiting where I couldn’t do much else. It fucking sucked lol.
Oh also there’s a bar with live music in a laundromat that I’ve been to, alcohol and punk music can definitely up the vibes
I used to go to this Laundromat and next door to it was a good burger joint that served beer and had great food. Inside the burger joint was a light up board with all the laundromat machines and they would light up green when your load was complete. Must have been owned by the same people and it was a great business model. I’d go have a burger and beer every other week and watch tv in the burger joint till the light told me my stuff was ready
I want to know what TV shows you are watching
Most of the stuff I watch have something bad happen in a laundromat, like getting chased by armed thugs
I feel like it’s kind of a meet-cute trope in older sitcoms
Remember the Levi’s classic ad 1985, now I feel old.
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.
In my town, junkies hang out at the laundromat begging for money. The cops show up regularly and haul them off. I saw prostitutes outside of it once, too
Oh my pearls!! Are you ok
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
Yeah I’m tired of all this laundromat sexy-washing.
Because if people wanted to see angry people who don’t want to be there, they would just go to a laundromat in real life.
It’s kind of what I liked about Baby Driver, the movie acknowledges that a laundromat is kind of a weird place to hang out for a date, but the awkwardness lets the passionate feelings they have for each other shine through.
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.
Something similar in Columbus. I’ve never washed clothes there, but I have been to punk shows there
I lived downtown Seattle in the 90s, close enough we just walked to Sit and Spin with our laundry. Best way to do laundry ever.
Also they were reasonably priced since they made most of their money off the cafe (which had really good food).
I’ll have some of those memories for life.
I have never seen a laundromat romanticized in a movie as far as I can recall.
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.
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.
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