Dirty laundry

I bet you thought this would be a juicy post full of scandalous information! I am going to actually write about dirty laundry. As many of you know, Mike and I do not have access to a washer and dryer. Before I moved out here, my flat in Ann Arbor had a washer and dryer. I had not been to the laundromat since college, and I graduated from grad school 10 years ago!
I am always cranky about going there. It just sucks. We have bought underwear, socks, and other articles of clothing to avoid going for a few more days. I can not tell you how many pairs of undwear I own, but I think it is close to 50 pairs. We average one trip a month there, and we bring shitloads of laundry when we go. It tends to be crowded and incredibly annoying to me. We go late at night during the week to avoid the biggest crowds. When you have huge loads, you need the big machines. People tell me I should drop it off and use a service, but I suppose I am kinda a control freak about it. As it was last night, we spent over 20 dollars to do our own, but we washed about 180 pounds of laundry (as measured by the machines).
The past couple of years we have been using a "good" laundromat. It is the newest around and the biggest. They usually have a TV on, and lite rock is piped in. One of the things that bothers me in there is the local lite rock station. We usually time our trip to coincide with a certain radio program where the host reads advice out of women's magazine and calls it "Intelligence for your life". It is not as if they are discussing Proust! http://www.tesh.com
Adding insult to injury, I almost always hear this song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-zBMpJJhXY
Oh well, it still beats when the doowop show was on and it sounded like dogs were howling. We need to buy a house now! I told Mike I will stretch my laundry to the closing date!