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?

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      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.

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    You must watch very different movies than I do. I immediately envision something dank and dark with flickering lights.

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    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.

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      That reads like something out of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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    aren’t wearing underwear because it’s in the wash

    ??? Do these people only have one paif of underwear??

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        I have multiple pairs of underwear but I hate h going 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.

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    Because people who never needed to use an annoying thing like to imagine and romantize how they would use it. Completely ignoring reality.

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    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.

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      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.

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      Seems like a brilliant idea. There should be more laundromats with liquor licenses.

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    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.

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    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

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        Bud, if you’ve ever encountered an angry meth zombie trapped in an enclosed space with you, you’d know the pain.

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              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.

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                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.

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    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.