Scenes from the Laundromat

am lucky enough to get to do my laundry almost weekly at the local laundromat because my landlord is too cheap to put a washer/dryer in my place cause he'd have to do extra plumbing. Of course both the upstairs and downstairs have them, but not me. Although I get a rent discount and they don't. I digress.

While at the laundromat I have to chance to observe many many unusual and not so unusual people. Personally, I like the weird ones.

Monday night I was at the laundromat, folding a couple loads of laundry, when 2 young girls walk in carrying their comforters. They must be around 19/20 and have clearly never been in a laundromat before. In the 15 minutes I was there with them they,
debated which washer they should use (triple loader was decided), which machine was actually the triple loader (which they gave up on and asked me), How much the tripler loader costs, and where to put the soap.

Then they realize after putting in a few quarters that it's more then the $3 advertised on the ancient sign over the machines, and start to freak out a little cause they don't have enough money to run 2 machines.....2 machines....for 2 comforters...that are the same color....

So on my way out I can't keep my mouth shut anymore so I interject with, you could just wash both of those in the same machine, and they come back with....

WE CAN???!!?

So I proceeed to explain that since they were using cold water and the color of their comforters is almost the same they can wash them together.