Monday - Laundry Day??

The new laundry room down on first floor is progressing and should be ready for use in a few days. Most everyone will be glad when it's operational. A few are still resisting.

We're still down to two functional washers and two functional dryers, not all together. To say it's making for chaos in the laundry room is an understatement.......especially when you have several married couples in the building with at least one working spouse who opt to do laundry on the weekend. Then you have others who don't want one thing to ever change, regardless of the reason why. Some days you'd swear it was a building full of kindergarteners!

I realize that sounds kind of harsh - but my mother taught me to be truthful. Tact doesn't always enter into the conversation! The best way I've found to deal with the laundry is to roll with the punches and know that we'll have a new functioning laundry room with four new washers and four new dryers. They should all work, they are all together for those few couples who catch up on laundry on the weekends, and they're far away from most of the apartments that noise shouldn't be a problem. And anyway, they're new machines and shouldn't be noisy for a good while.

The middle of last week it got really hectic. I don't think I walked past the laundry room a single time on Thursday when it was quiet. Building chatter said there was a time or two with several baskets of laundry lined up - some waiting to be washed, others waiting to be dried. Some people were washing in the second floor washer and hauling their wet clothes up to be dried. It didn't take me long to decide that we could just keep using the sheets on the bed, there was no way I was going to try to "muscle in".

Friday was even crazier when one working couple was catching up on their weeks' worth of laundry after four long work days. Then there were the "Friday IS laundry day" believers. From what I heard, I was really glad I was out of the line of fire that day!

The weekend stayed really busy up there - then in what was a strange turn of events, this afternoon was quiet. I was astonished. I did see someone in there this morning - there are several who have cleaning ladies who do their laundry, and that's often on Monday. Since the window of opportunity was wide open, I jumped in - I grabbed the sheets off the bed and started them washing. It was all good.

Over this coming weekend we will be traveling to Grain Valley to house sit (and turtle sit) for a little over a week. But with any luck, I'll be able to break in the new facilities with our weekly laundry before we go.