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 some of those angry lonely people are writers, and they have a lot of time to think.
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.
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
I see it mostly in anime.
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
They did? Try cleaning out better before the anal so the bedding doesn’t get messy.
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
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!
Sometimes, just for a lark, I wear both pairs at the same time! Hahahahaha!
I have multiple pairs of underwear but I hate
hgoing to a laundromat, so I used to wait until I was absolutely out of everything and the clothes I was wearing were oversoiled.I have laundry facilities at home now, but when I’m double-plus depressed, I still will wait until I have absolutely nothing to wear.
I have zero paifs of underwear.
Same
This was the norm far longer than not. Only nobles rich enough to have washer servants would wear undergarments. The rest of us enjoyed brisk breezes betwixt our nethers.
Yeah I’m tired of all this laundromat sexy-washing.
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
Hot dog fingers.
Sexy hot dog fingers.
Because people who never needed to use an annoying thing like to imagine and romantize how they would use it. Completely ignoring reality.
I have never seen a laundromat romanticized in a movie as far as I can recall.
🎵 Laundry day
See you there
Underthings
Tumbling🎶
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.
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.
Seems like a brilliant idea. There should be more laundromats with liquor licenses.
Something similar in Columbus. I’ve never washed clothes there, but I have been to punk shows there
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.
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
Bud, if you’ve ever encountered an angry meth zombie trapped in an enclosed space with you, you’d know the pain.
I’m a recovering meth addict. Eat shit.
Congrats on recovering. Doesn’t give you an excuse to be a bitch though.
Congrats on being privileged to never need to go through that hell, and talking down to those who did.
I don’t need to justify myself to you, but my response to the other poster was completely valid. If he’s using terms like “meth zombies” and denigrating public facilities that allow addicts to enter because of their presence then he deserves every ounce of contempt he gets.
I’ll accept a thank you for the explanation but any other response will result in a block.
Theres a difference between addicts and junkies. Junkies have my empathy but I really understand why someone wouldn’t want to spend prolonged times in the same space with one.
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.
Lol having sex in a laundromat is not going to go over well
You didn’t see the movie “My Beautiful Laundrette”.